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William S. Knudsen (General Motors) $459,878; Actor Gary Cooper $370.214; Actor Ronald Colman $362,500; Actress Claudette Colbert $350.833; Thomas J. Watson (International Business Machines) $342.008; Spyros Skouras (theatres) $341.009; Actress Mae West $323,333; Vincent Fitzgerald (G. L. Ohrstrom & Co. Inc.) $320.296; Charles F. Kettering (General Motors) $304.400...
The Rockettes came into being in 1925 when a hoofer named Russell Markert rounded up 16 girls to dance at the Skouras Brothers' Missouri Theatre in St. Louis. He called them the Missouri Rockets. When Broadway clamored for the troupe, Markert changed their name to the American Rockets and...
But while last week was dark for many cinema figures, it was a big week for the three Skounis brothers of St. Louis. The Skouras brothers were once shepherds near Skourohorian, Greece. There were four of them: George Panagiotis, Charles, Spyros, Demetrius. They decided to pool their finances, send one...
Fox Leases. Spoyros Skouras and his brother George built up a chain of motion picture houses in the Middle West, sold them to Warner Bros., but kept some theatres in & around St. Louis. Last January the Brothers Skouras resigned from Warner Bros., began building up a new chain. At the...