Word: adolphe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Famous Players-Lasky. President Adolph Zukor last week announced that the company's 1926 net profits were $5,600,815. The Paramount Theatre, Manhattan, has been taking in an average of $75,000 weekly; is earning money at the rate of $1,000,000 a year. Less gorgeous are more than 550 other "Publix" theatres owned and controlled by the corporation, and earning profits. This year Beau Geste, Old Ironsides, Wedding March, Wings, Rough Riders and The Greatest Show on Earth, all Famous Players-Lasky productions, will tour the country as though they were plays on the legitimate stage...
...future of the motion picture industry will depend on college men," is the opinion of Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Mr. Zukor was speaking to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday, at the conclusion of his address at the Business School. "College trained men are becoming more in demand each year in the picture making business and I see the time not far in advance when they will be demanded exclusively. When I entered this business about 20 years ago, man from college despised motion pictures. To work for such a company was far beneath their dignity. But within...
...thus entertain them for an entire evening. The result was his entrance into the moving picture industry and the production of "feature films", for which, since that time he has become world famous. Twelve years ago, the newly organized Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, a joining of the firms of Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky, had a total capital of $100,000. Today, the corporation is worth $100,000,000 in assets
...Film Booking Offices of America, Inc.; on Tuesday, March 15, "The Motion Picture Industry", by Will H. Hays, President of Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.; on Thursday, March 17, "Production Management Problems", by Jesse D. Lasky, Vice-President, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; "Executive Management", by Adolph Zukor, President, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, on Saturday, March 19; Sidney R. Kent, General Manager, Famous Players-Lasky Corporation will speak on "Distribution", on March 22; on March 24, R. H. Cochrane, Vice-President of Universal Film Corporation, will speak on "Advertising and Exploitation; and on March 26, A. H. Garland...
...second year men at the School. In addition to Mr. Hays, Joseph P. Kennedy '12, President of the Film Booking Offices of America has arranged for lectures by such prominent figures in the motion picture industry as, Jesse D. Lasky, Vice-President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation; Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players; William Fox, President of the Fox Film Corporation; Marcus Loew, President of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation and Harry M. Warner, President of Warner Brothers Picture Corporation...