Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mind-Reader (Warner). Chandra Chandler (Warren William), alias Chandra the Great, Dr. Munro and the Great Divoni, starts as a fortune-teller in county fairs. He marries a smalltown girl (Constance Cummings), gives up his profession because she disapproves of it, resumes it after being a failure at selling brushes. His assistant (Allen Jenkins) functions as an impudent chauffeur who gathers from the councils of his confreres in garages the information that enables Chandra to become a highly successful wizard, particularly adept at telling suspicious wives where their husbands spend the hours after work. Chandra's precarious prosperity ends...
...Keyhole (Warner) concerns a romance that springs up between a private detective (George Brent) and the girl (Kay Francis) whom he follows from...
...editor and business manager of Trend have helpful connections. Publisher Peter Vischer of Polo is the brother-in-law of Editor Frederick Guyn ("Fritz") Brownell, onetime general manager of the Washingtonian and editor of Buffalo Town Tidings. Adman Albert Davis Lasker is cousin to Business Manager Eugene Meier Warner. Money from Warners, Schoellkopfs and other rich & prominent Buffalonians will tide the enterprise over until the promoters decide whether they will accept advertisements, add another four pages. Five advts, claimed Trend, had already been turned down...
...Hollywood offices of the Hays organization last week, six of Hollywood's major producers-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis B. Mayer, Fox Production Chief Winfield Sheehan, Warner Brothers' Jack Warner, Columbia's Harris Cohn, President Benjamin B. Kahane of RKO, Comedy-Producer Hal Roach-met to decide what to do. Their 10,000 underlings, whose total weekly pay amounts to $1,500,000, blenched at the rumor that all studios would close for at least four weeks. Next day the producers met again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least...
When news of the Alaska gold rush reached New Siberia, Welzl caught the fever, mushed across the Arctic ice to get his share. But he soon, like Denver's Horace Austin Warner Tabor, made up his mind that the only golddiggers who made fortunes were the middlemen; he went back to hunting and trapping for a living. "Gold-digging," says he, "is a horrid occupation, but a bit better than begging." In Alaska and northern Canada he met many an eccentric adventurer. Dawson Tom was a cardsharp whose favorite dodge for getting free drinks was to produce what looked...