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...weird peerage of the cinema industry. It helped give the industry its reputation. It concerns a Japanese valet who learned how to pickle herring, a girl who was born in a Pennsylvania coal town and killed herself in Paris, a gold watch, a $50,000 messenger boy, the Tsar of Russia and the Wandering Jew. It began the day Lewis J. Selznick auctioned off the stock in his cheap Manhattan jewelry store and began wondering what to do next...
...letter telling her to congratulate Zukor for copying his idea. He held the first lavish previews at the Astor Hotel, signed Nazimova and Norma Talmadge, made $300,000 out of War Brides, had his valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from...
...Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria was in Bayreuth as usual last week. So was ex-Crown Princess Cäcilie of Germany, Prince Wilhelm of Wied who was reigning Prince of Albania for a few months in 1914; the Grand Duke of Hesse and a scattering of Russian, Greek and German nobility and ex-nobility. The weather was bad. Toscanini had his old rheumatism again. Many tickets had been cancelled; prices for room & board were reduced. The Festspielhaus restaurant had been "very tastefully decorated." Then enough people bought tickets at the last minute to fill the house, the weather cleared...
...gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw $12 each.) A rousing, purely Hindenburg proclamation called upon the people to be calm, be "sporting...
Observers felt that the Council's report at least served the purpose of calling attention to the fact that the cinema is now more influential and definitely more immoral than when Tsar Hays became President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America...