Word: zukor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Having made up his mind, he returned last week to Manhattan. And everyone of the least importance in his Hollywood plant was left to read a book which he had given them. That book is the story of Adolph Zukor and of the shadowland he dominates...
...when American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gave a private showing of sound-pictures of people singing, an orchestra playing, a drummer drumming, officials of the company waited anxiously for the verdict of the man for whom the showing had been arranged?Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount-'amous Players-Lasky Corp.* Mr. Zukor said then: "I think it will be good some day. I'd like to see somebody perfect it. Myself, I can't handle it until it's better." Last week Mr. Zukor said: "From now on at least 50% of our productions will be sound pictures...
...important indorsement. During the last two months, Zukor has been popping in and out of all parts of the Paramount studios in Hollywood, often appearing most unexpectedly, examining everything. He had never before been known to be so inquisitive about the making of his own pictures. But the talkie has caused a crisis. First the talkie has greatly increased competition in the cinema business?Fox and the Warner Brothers having taken a talkie lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only...
...cinema, once a suspect-competitor of the nickel sideshow, began its new phase in 1912 when Sarah Bernhardt, old and lame, said "Pictures are my one chance for immortality." At that time, Zukor, a 5 ft. 4 in. Jew from Ricse, Hungary, was running a movie theatre on Fourteenth Street, Manhattan. William A. Brady, his temporary partner, distrusted the new medium; so did most other producers and actors. Most of the theatrical people who, lacking other jobs, worked in pictures, tried out of shame to stay anonymous. Zukor told their names. On a scratch pad one night he wrote...
...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...