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Like William Fox, Adolph Zukor, Jesse Lasky, Lewis J. Selznick and the rest of his picturesque competitors, Uncle Carl Laemmle was a brilliant showman. What other qualifications he had to run a major cinema company sometimes seemed mysterious. But for a long time none was necessary. Nepotism, always prevalent in Hollywood, was a fixed tradition at Universal City. On frequent trips to his birth place, Carl Laemmle usually returned with relatives who were promptly placed on Universal's payroll. Many were incompetents. None was discharged. The peak of Universal nepotism came in 1929. Carl Laemmle made his son, Carl...
...from his first retirement to handle finances of Paramount Publix. He slashed costs, reduced rentals, made executives turn in expense accounts. But he cut off so many heads and stepped on so many toes that in 1933 he resigned, reputedly over the question of John Hertz authority versus Adolph Zukor authority. The second retirement also failed to take, and in January 1934 he became a Lehman partner...
Sued for Separation. Arthur Marcus Loew, 38, vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one-time son-in-law of Adolph Zukor; by Barbara Mae Smith Loew, 25. onetime showgirl; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: He treated her like a child, humiliated her before servants, called her a killjoy, drank excessively, abandoned her at parties, allowed women to put makeup on his face, pinched her dog, harassed her canary. Mrs. Loew asked $3,000 per month maintenance, $25,000 for counsel fees, $2.500 for special costs. Mr. Loew: "Preposterous...
...typewriter, Dr. Shipler called Tsar Will Hays a "window-dresser" and "office boy'' in 1929, later smoked out the fact that on the Hays payroll were two employes of the Federal Council of Churches. In November 1931 The Churchman editorialized as follows: "Will H. Hays, Adolph Zukor, Gabriel Hess, Charles C. Pettijohn and numbers of other individuals and film-producers have been indicted in the Province of Ontario for conspiring to prevent competition in that portion of Canada. This is a criminal prosecution, the results of which can only be moral, as the gentlemen are not likely...
After the court approved the plan (which includes a change of name to Paramount Pictures), the only missing jig in the Paramount puzzle was the executive staff. Last week Paramount's 17 new directors got together in Manhattan, attended to this final detail. Old Mr. Zukor was given a berth as board chairman but key job of executive committee chairman went to Mr. Fortington. Picked for president was John Edward Otterson, 54, a tall, quiet, iron-haired onetime Naval officer who has long headed Electrical Research Products, Inc., American Telephone & Telegraph's spectacular subsidiary...