Word: zoltan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
With enormous backing, a nucleus of a company in which one of his brothers (Vincent) is art director and another (Zoltan) a director. Producer Korda last year arranged to attack the U. S. market (15,000 theatres to Great Britain's 4,000) on a large scale by buying a partnership in United Artists, which releases his pictures in the U. S. For years the English cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building...
Sanders of the River (London Films), an English effort to do for Africa what Hollywood in Lives of a Bengal Lancer did for India, is by far the most elaborate location picture yet turned out by a British studio. Zoltan Korda, brother of famed Producer-Director Alexander Korda, took an expedition to Africa, stayed there four months making background shots of the Congo River, tribal ceremonies among half a dozen brands of savages. At Shepperton-on-Thames. London Films' copy of an African village, complete with thatched huts, war canoes and burning-stake for prisoners, aroused so much excitement that...
...Tasting. The grading of canned peas has long been a matter of human taste. Dr. Zoltan Imre Kertesz of the New York State division of food chemistry reported that the proportion of peas soluble in alcohol was a much better index of grade, that many a canner was ready to replace human tasters with alcoholic robots...
Nordica's three husbands brought the unhappiness into her life. First was one Frederick A. Gower who took a balloon flight over the English Channel and never returned. Second was Zoltan Dome, an Hungarian tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...