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...succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company, with Mr. Schulberg in charge of production. Harry Cohn became...
...potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells his second. Then he knocks out his opponent, races to the pier in his bathrobe, delivers another knockout. When last seen, he is being reconciled with a previous sweetheart (Marian Nixon) brought to see him by his manager (Guy Kibbee...
...aged 20, Gene Sarazen was so pleased that he carried the big championship cup everywhere he went and once, when the top fell off, had to jump out of a taxi to get it. Neat, slick, sunburned, Sarazen was just as pleased last week. When he got a telephone call from Johnny Farrell, U. S. Open champion in 1928, he said: "Oh, boy, am I excited! . . . How are they taking it in New York?" Two days later, carrying the British Open Cup which he said he would defend next year, Sarazen sailed for the U. S. to play...
Director Clair keeps his characters, action and dialog as natural and human as possible. But the settings, the story, the mood of the direction, are stylized to achieve a dream quality. Director Clair uses anonymities for his leads; Actor Raymond Cordy was a taxi-driver a year ago. Admiration for Charlie Chaplin is shown in mob scenes, chases and stampedes which follow Chaplin's principles of dance and pantomime. Director Clair, 30, was until 1926 a newspaperman whose novel, Adams, a story of Charlie Chaplin, had some success. He joined a Paris experimental art group specializing in cinema, produced...
...Manhattan, a taxi descending Brooklyn Bridge ramp sent a group of pedestrians helter-skelter, bounced off a trolley car, mounted three curbs, dragged a steel traffic cable & stanchions 10 ft., crushed through a newsstand, cracked a subway kiosk, stopped at the head of the subway stairs. Extricating himself uninjured from the wreckage, Chauffeur Jacob Selditch said : "I guess maybe them brakes ought to be tightened...