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The first prefabricated theater in the U.S., designed to do practically every thing for the patron except pay for his ticket, was opened at Long Beach, Calif, last week. Built by National Theatres Corp.'s president Charles Skouras, it is constructed of steel, gypsum and Fiberglas sections and seats...
Cost of construction is Charlie Skouras' secret (Hollywood guessed about $500,000). But Skouras estimated that the cost was less than a standard-built movie house of the same seating capacity and that his prefabricated theater on a production basis would cost only about $200,000. When materials become...
Engaged. Daphne Dolores Mercedes Skouras, 24, daughter of cinema tycoon (20th Century-Fox) Spyros Skouras; and Oren Root Jr., 35, Manhattan lawyer, grandnephew of the late great Elihu Root, organizer of the clubs that won Wendell Willkie the Republican presidential nomination in 1940; in Rye, N.Y.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's President Nick Schenck, who had joyfully announced that company profits for the first ten months of this fiscal year were a whopping $12,579,245, recently finished the third of a series of two-week conclaves on the problem. Out from New York to confer...
When Charlie Skouras & associates offered to sell their shares back to National last month, they asked a price ($7,415,000) that seemed way over the stock's value. Even the directors of 20th Century-Fox, of which National is a subsidiary (and of which Charlie's brother...