Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange organizations functioning in the amusement industry, Pioneer Pictures, Inc. is one of the strangest. Organized two years ago, it is run by John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 30, and his Cousin Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 35, whom Jock interested in cinema as Sonny had interested him in aviation. Board members are almost exclusively Whitneys. Last week the Whitneys had made ready for the U. S. public, at a cost of $1,000,000, the first full-length color picture since 1931-8,000 ft. and 1½ hours of 19th Century romance which may or may not revolutionize the cinema...
...rented Pathe lot. Director Rouben Mamoulian, hired to replace Sherman, scrapped all the scenes made by his predecessor. A sequence carefully pieced together from 6,000 ft. of negative was burned in a projection machine and had to be recut, which took a week. During these tribulations, Jock Whitney flew to the coast nine times. Final difficulties with Becky Sharp were concerned, not as anticipated with color, but with sound-re-recording the sound track by a new RCA process. Last week, its release date was postponed to June...
Rowing in the American Henley at Philadelphia, the Varsity 150's compete against Princeton, Yale, Penn, Navy, Cornell, and Columbia. A morning and an afternoon heat will probably be run in view of the number of entrants. The Harvard boatings are: stroke, Whitney; 7, Dall; 6, Carpenter; 5, Adams; 4, Bill; 3, Piper; 2, Hall; bow, Perry; cox, Barber...
Board Chairman John Hay Whitney...
Arthur Eli Monroe '08, lecturer in Economics, will continue under the new regime to hold his present post of Senior Tutor, and Professor Whitney will continue his association with Kirkland House as a member of the tutorial staff...