Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...post-office in Algonac, Mich., sits Chris Smith, chewing tobacco, swapping stories with his small-town cronies, whittling small models of boats. He is founder, and his son Jay is president of the largest mahogany motorboat company in the U. S.* Last week Chris Smith & Sons Boat Co. had cheering news for President Hoover and his industrial conferees: the company had just received the first order in the history of the industry for a solid trainload of motorboats. Fifteen carloads of Chris-Craft boats, with a factory list value of $115,000, were ordered by the Minnesota Marine Corp...
...Productions, Inc. (cinema production), National Broadcasting Co. (broadcasting). Recently it acquired an option on the patents for the Theremin "ether wave" musical instrument, which is played by moving the hands in the air above it. Entertainment, therefore, and particularly musical entertainment, is Radio Corp.'s forte. Last week it went further into music. National Broadcasting Co. announced that with music publishers Leo Feist, Inc. and Carl Fischer it had formed a new publishing house: Radio Music Corp., capitalized at $6,600,000. NBC owns one-third of the capital stock. RKO Productions, Inc. therefore, like every other important cinema...
...purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer. Confidently last week cinemen predicted that RKO Productions, Inc. would soon produce a sound movie with a Wayne theme song. And, they pointed...
Radio Music Co. has another function. It intends to discover new music, encourage new composers. It is tired of jazz, wants melody. Its President Edwin Claude Mills† last week said: "We are not interested in 'reform.' We are not trying to get ourselves into such a rarified atmosphere that nobody could live in it with us. . . . We have had perhaps too much of jazz and it seems about time for some one to assume leadership in a movement away from the cacophony of most music of the day. I think we should get back to melody...
...Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from an investment of $1,667 built the entire structure, amassed a personal fortune once estimated at over...