Word: warner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This dispersion did not end the incident. Famed Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise heard of it and complained to Major John A. Warner, Superintendent of New York State Police. Louis Marshall, president of the American Jewish Committee, called "the most distinguished Jew in America," sent to Mayor Hawes of Massena a long message in which he demanded an apology. Excerpts from the message...
...week. Last spring Radio Corp. of America organized as a subsidiary R. C. A. Photophone Inc. to exploit a method of making and reproducing sound-pictures. Photophone is similar, and interchangeable, with Fox's movietone films. Both change sound waves to light waves, and reproduction reverses the process. Warner Bros, vitaphone uses phonographic discs for sound accompaniment with its pictures. Vitaphone and movietone had close tie-ups with cinema producing, distributing and exhibiting companies (TIME, July 9). Photophone did not. R. C. A., photophone's parent corporation, sought such...
...closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors and theatre managers. This was an alliance, not a merger. It was weakly tied financially. It was weaker than the Paramount-Famous-Lasky, the Fox Film and Loew organizations. Warner Bros, merger with the Stanley Co. of America and First National Pictures three weeks ago also was stronger...
Junior Class team: C. N. Levine '30, L.e.; J. K. Fairbank '30, l.t.; J. W. O'Connell, Jr. '30, l.g.; F. R. Pierce '30, c.; E. W. Remick, Jr. '30, r.g.; A. T. Gray '30, r.t.; Nathan Warner '30, r.e.; F. V. Nissen '30, q.b.; L. J. Robinson '30,l.h.b.; P. J. McKinnon '30, r.h.b.: P. W. Mahady...
...merger is of vital importance to Warner Brothers. They were the pioneers in the production of sound-pictures, which this year have given a new spurt to the U.S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky...