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...dinner in Hollywood's Biltmore Hotel, attended by Tsar Will H. Hays, Vice President Curtis, Mrs. Dolly Gann and 2,000 others, there were read last week the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...
...there to tell Oil that it must regard the public interest, must cease the "mad wastes" of the past. In the air was talk of setting up an Oil Dictator, to govern the petroleum business as baseball and cinema are governed. Mentioned (to his great delight) as possible oil tsar at a possible salary of $250.000 a year, was Vice President Charles Curtis...
...Curtis' name did not come up last week. The Institute shelved the tsar idea for the time being. Instead it accepted the resignation of Edwin B. Reeser as president and elected Amos Leonidas Beaty to succeed him. More significant, it was decided to give the Institute's president a salary and recognize the post for the real job it is. President-Elect Beaty was quick to dissociate himself from any thought of dictatorship. "I was elected just to do my best," said he, ". . . to keep the industry going smoothly down the middle of the road." Nevertheless observers guessed that, within...
Only males can suffer haemophilia. Only females can transmit it. Mysterious and incurable,? this rare disease blighted the last of the Romanovs as it blights the last of the Bourbons. Tsar Nicholas II discovered too late that Tsarina Alexandra was a "carrier," that their son the Tsarevitch Alexis was a haemophile. The frantic mother's efforts to find a cure for her son brought her under the sway of Rasputin, the "Black Monk," who seemed for a time to be able to stop the Tsare-vitch's bleeding and promised a cure. Monk Rasputin's ascendancy over Tsar & Tsarina...
Theoretically, many persons who were cinemaddicts before the advent of talking pictures have since lost interest in moving pictures. To recapture their attention, and increase cinema attendance all over the U. S., the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (Tsar Hays's organization) last week considered an unprecedented project: a $500,000 advertising campaign, recommending no particular pictures, all cinemas in general...