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With new financing came new directors. On the Film Board, William Fox himself was a holdover, as were anti-Fox directors Winfield Sheehan and Saul E. Rogers, general counsel. But gone were Fox-Brother Aaron Fox, Fox-cousin Charier Levin. Fox-brother-in-law Jack Leon...
Last week Samuel Untermyer prepared a bill for about $1,000,000. William Fox resigned from the presidency of Fox Films and Fox Theatres. Winfield Sheehan said: "The war is over and we are back in the amusement business." And Fox Film announced a 1930-31 production schedule of 52 feature pictures on which $22,000,000 would be spent. The new Fox picture program, temporarily eclipsed by corporate wrangles, included Common Clay, Alcatraz (in which Cinema-horse Rex will play the lead), Are You There? (with Beatrice Lillie), Women of All Nations (with Victor McLaglen) and a comedy...
...Winfield Sheehan. Mr. Sheehan emerged as biggest winner. It was reported that he would have been made Fox president except for his steadfast refusal to accept the honor. Said Variety, well-informed theatrical weekly: "Winnie Sheehan . . . has been the backbone of Fox ever since he joined it nearly 20 years ago." Last week Backbone Sheehan emerged as active and unquestioned operating head, was engaged in winding up his eastern affairs preparatory to returning to Hollywood...
Sheehan. To many an observer of the tangled Fox situation, Winfield R. ("Winnie") Sheehan appeared as man-of-the-hour. Vice president and general manager of Fox Film Corp., Mr. Sheehan has been the operating genius of the Fox company. Joining the Fox organization in 1914, he organized Fox Foreign Exchanges in Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, on the Continent and in South America and the Far East. He was the first cineman to concentrate on the foreign market, from which today comes 40% of the industry's revenue. He founded Fox News and Fox Educational Department...
...scholars by the Harvard Law School. The recipients of these honorary doctorships of law were William W. Buckland, president of Caius and Gonville colleges, Cambridge, England, Regius professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University and one of the outstanding authorities of the world on Roman Law, and Perey H. Winfield. Rouse Professor of English Law at Cambridge...