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ONE afternoon, President Spyros Skouras of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp., who lives in the New York suburb of Rye, offered a lift home to his neighbor, Jed Harris, the New York theatrical producer. Harris accepted. This is what happened afterward, as he recalls it.
Skouras' hospitality is formidable fun. Business associates, invited to his country place for a "quiet lunchtime conference," are not surprised to find a dense crowd milling around on the lawn. When the group eventually thins out enough to cram itself into the dining room for dinner, it sometimes includes...
THE quality of impulsiveness discernible in Skouras' entertaining is still more marked in his major activities. Some years ago in Atlanta, Ga., Skouras was inspecting a million-dollar theater, a weak link in one of his chains. Arriving at the theater at 11 a.m., he found no one there...
Spanos' big chance came in the fall of 1948 when he met William D. Fulton, who had formerly run a theater in Kansas City, now ran one in Pacific Palisades. Spanos' antitrust knowledge interested Fulton, who felt that big theater interests had victimized him. In 1937 Fulton had...
Spanos is finding things a bit tense on Sundays, when he attends Los Angeles' Greek Orthodox Church. Charles Skouras is also a member. "At church recently," Spanos says, Skouras "called me a racketeer and yelled that I was trying to get rich off him. I told him: 'Why...