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DARRYL F. ZANUCK...
Which way would the movies go? Fox was sticking with CinemaScope, and last week Warners announced that they would make 22 pictures in 3-D. Nevertheless, only one thing was sure, and Darryl Zanuck said it: "The small screen is through, through!" It was up to the public to decide what comes next, and last week the theater owners of the U.S. were moving at top speed to give the public an early chance to decide. Thousands of them had signed orders for "all-purpose screens" that can show everything from Cinema-Scope on down...
...Zanuck may argue, in his own defense, that great artists have frequently defied the rule; after all, Michelangelo was said to favor a figure "pyramidal, serpentine, and multiplied by one, two, and three," which is at least as peculiar as 2.66 to 1. Yet only by a master stroke of organization was Leonardo da Vinci able, in The Annunciation, to connect in one esthetic whole a frame that is only slightly more extreme than Zanuck's. But Zanuck of course has a bigger budget. One moviemaker summed up the problem this way: "Marilyn Monroe will have to lie down...
...five new men on the ten-man 20th Century board to represent minority interests," provided that they were well-known businessmen. When Green presented a slate of names, Skouras said he had never heard of them, refused to seat them. Green also tried to make a deal with Zanuck, promising him the presidency if he would help to oust Skouras. Zanuck turned him down, said the suit could only be actuated by a desire of reprisal . . ." So Green squared off to try to get control of the company at the May 19 stockholders' meeting...
...Since Zanuck and Skouras control about 200,000 shares between them (o 2,769,486 outstanding), they would ordinarily have no trouble defeating Green. But cumulative voting for directors, which increases each stockholder's vote by the number of directors to be elected and allows the votes to be cast for one or more directors instead of for an entire slate, gives Green a chance to win some seats on the board. To block him, the company has called a special stockholders' meeting for May 5 to amend the bylaws in order to eliminate cumulative voting. Said Green...