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...film world has changed vastly since 1914 when Jesse Lasky with Samuel Goldwyn and Cecil Blount DeMille produced The Girl of the Golden West and The Warrens of Virginia. In 1916 the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co. joined Adolph Zukor's Famous Players Film Co. and Paramount Pictures Corp. (distributing agency) to become Famous Players-Lasky Corp. Hollywood thought that the shy, egg-headed Lasky and Adolph Zukor concealed a griping rivalry behind their affability. Presently Benjamin Percival Schulberg became Lasky's man: managing director of production. Sidney Kent was Zukor's man: general manager...
...owned a theatre with 144 folding chairs; soon he bought 130 more chairs; soon he owned three theatres. Katz went to work in Paramount, first edged out Walter Wanger, Lasky's friend and eastern production executive. In January 1932 he edged out Sidney Kent, general distribution manager and Zukor's friend. Soon he did the same for Benjamin Schulberg. Lasky's man. Kent went at once to Fox as president. Schulberg said that he would produce independently...
...Katz became stronger in Paramount. Lasky and Zukor lost caste but Zukor kept his figurehead presidency. Lasky's last ace was his long-term contract, said to give him $9,000 a week. The final squabbles evidently concerned the cost of buying in this gold-plated contract. Before he left on his leave of absence, Lasky had given Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument...
...tycoon. Six months later Mr. Tinker became board chairman, was succeeded a president by Sidney Kent, onetime Paramount general manager. Winfield Sheehan, who last winter suffered a nervous breakdown and was reported out of Fox, last week re turned to his job of general manager. Jesse Lasky and Adolph Zukor have lost control of Paramount to John Hertz, taxi tycoon, and Theatre Owner Sam Katz of Chicago. Last week Paramount's pro duction manager, Ben Schulberg, resigned. Joseph Kennedy, onetime board chairman of Pathe, was reported planning to pur chase First National studios from Warner Brothers for a new company...
...Kent received his business training as a salesman for American Druggists' Syndicate. He rose rapidly, became assistant to the president. After a short experience with Vitagraph Co. he helped liquidate General Film, indicted under the Sherman Act, and was soon talking business with Famous Players' Adolph Zukor. Tall Mr. Kent's first Paramount job was in the sales department. He was promoted to be district manager, with offices in Kansas City. His next change was a call to Manhattan where he was made first sales manager, then general manager of distribution, finally general manager of the company...