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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other companies whose conventions will be held late this month or early next are Twentieth Century-Fox, Columbia, Paramount, RKO. Items on their lists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plots & Plans | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

Eddie Cantor in Ali Baba Goes to Town, a new French star called Germaine Aussey in Lancer Spy, another investigation of the Quintuplets, a picture about Stanley and Livingstone (Twentieth Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Plots & Plans | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting of a Guild shop (virtually closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Strikes-of-the-Week | 5/17/1937 | See Source »

Telephoning in transit is by no means new but is still undeveloped. Some freights have telephone service between engine and caboose at all times, and certain crack limiteds like the Twentieth Century have telephone service to anywhere when the train is at rest in stations, but nowhere can train travelers telephone beyond the train when it is moving. In Canada some five years ago the Canadian National conducted a stunt whereby a conversation was held between London, England, and a train running between Montreal and Chicago. Regular service proved too costly, was discontinued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Telephoning in Transit | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

Cafe Metropole (Twentieth Century-Fox). When the suave proprietor (Adolphe Menjou) of the Paris cafe where she is dining with her father and aunt tells her that a Russian prince, Alexis Panaieff, requests the honor of being presented to her, Laura Ridgeway (Loretta Young) is delighted. She recognizes the prince (Tyrone Power) as a young American whom she has encountered once before, and when his preposterous Russian accent makes it doubly clear that he is an impostor, she decides definitely to marry him. What Laura does not know is that marrying her is Prince Alexis' job, assigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

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