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...plan for making it pay, Mr. Warfield listened with interest. He turned the investment over to Mr. Loew. Profits began to come in. Soon Mr. Warfield, convinced of the financial genius of his new friend, induced Mr. Loew to invest in a theatrical venture. The other partners were Adolph Zukor (now head of Famous Players) and the late Mitchell Mark. The venture was a penny arcade. Marcus Loew has turned that penny arcade into 350 theatres. "A Loew House in Every Town," his employes proudly proclaim - and the boast is true, or very nearly. Every evening, as twilight blows westward...
...dinky little white-haired man trotted into the stockholders' meeting of the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. last week in Manhattan, slapped many a friend on the back, invited one and sundry to come and visit him at his country estate out-side of Manhattan. He was Adolph Zukor, president of Famous Players-Lasky...
There are many famed Jews -Colonel Friedsam (Altman's, the nice store), H. H.Lehman (finance), Adoph Zukor (cinema). Some are peers of the Straus brothers, but none o'ertops them in the esteem of Manhattan or of the Republic. Monday, Friedsam; Tuesday, Lehman; Wednesday, Straus; Thursday, Zukor-each was. a million-dollar day (except Tuesday, $957,000) and jointly they produced from the pockets of New York City Jews the gallant total of $4,001,335 for Jewish philanthropies...
...William Howard Taft 1,723 Booth Tarkington 8,478 Louis Tiffany (Jewels) 48,220 Reginald Vanderbilt 44,006 Frank A. Vanderlip 74,599 Henry Walters (Art) 475,851 George J. Whelan (Tobacco).... 201,081 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson 349 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise 547 William Wrigley (Gum) 2,644 Adolph Zukor...
Heralded by the revelation at a Federal inquiry into the Famous Players-Lasky Corp. that its President, Adolph Zukor, no longer held any stock in his name, the shares crashed twelve points on the Stock Exchange. Brokers are now the largest holders of the stock, since the directors of the company have quite generally "unloaded." There have been 225,000 shares of common stock, and about 90,000 of preferred, issued so far by the company; the largest block, 62,000 shares, is now held by a brokerage concern...