Word: tycooning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lyman Clark, president of Fox, utility tycoon, became interested in cinema through consideration of its use as an educative medium. In 1920 he founded the Society for Visual Education, invested a half-million dollars in producing educational films. When the 25 school super intendents approached Fox last year to see what could be done about manufacturing sound films for school use, Mr. Clark agreed to manufacture films for schools if it could be demonstrated that the. schools were prepared to use them...
...sufficient for the plot of a cinema; the girl also loves the son of the man who caused her father's death and will, presumably, marry him. Five and Ten (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) relates the horrid circumstances which may mar the financial success of a 5? & 10? store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed...
...Fannie Hurst, permits Marion Davies, hitherto an adroit though kittenish comedienne, to attempt an emotional role. Although Hearst papers, as is customary, hailed her efforts loudly, her defi ciencies were made more than usually apparent by juxtaposition with the work of smooth, skilful Leslie Howard. The 5? & 10? store tycoon, chief character in the book but not the cinema, is able Richard Bennett, father of Cinemactresses Joan and Constance and Cabaret Dancer Barbara Bennett...
Month ago the 14th season of free concerts began, called for the first time the Daniel Guggenheim Memorial Concerts in honor of the mining tycoon, who with his brother Murry sponsored them during his lifetime and after his death last September (TIME, Oct. 6) left provision for their perpetuation. A first night audience of 18,000 stood, heads bared, as the band played Frederic Francois Chopin's Funeral March in Daniel Guggenheim's memory...
...members of the Shanghai Gold Stock Exchange on Kiukiang Road bought silver by the simple method of selling gold. How desperate is China's state is well illustrated by the ugly rumors heard in Singapore concerning the affairs of Tan Kah Kee, great rubber, pineapple, biscuit and brick tycoon, patron of Amoy University. Once a coolie, he became a multimillionaire, is now thought to be heavily in debt, frantically trying to incorporate his private affairs...