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...last year-are in current money, money that flows from exhibitor to distributor, to producer, to investor-cash, cash. The cinema, with yearly income 50% of its total investment, is a stable, an important industry. And the most important figure in it is a little man, Adolph Zukor, who last week gave a smiling, chattering welcome to his friends-bankers, actors, merchants, politicos-come for the opening of his new Paramount Theatre in Manhattan. This new theatre-it is the latest of more than 800 that Adolph Zukor with Jesse L. Lasky and their Famous Players-Lasky associates have built...
...Adolph Lewisohn, German-born Manhattan capitalist: "I provided my home last week for a meeting of the Westchester County Committee of the New York State Charities Aid Association and heard Sociologist Edmund Cogswell scold bankers and insurance men for saying that the great majority of aged people are dependent on relatives or charity. An extensive investigation which he made in Massachusetts showed that less than 40% were dependent. It showed, too, that every 100 self-reliant sexagenarians have 260 children, while every 100 almshouse inmates have only 62. The association elected me president...
...must marry, but where is 'he' ? The man I marry must be a man whom I can trust and admire. A nonentity would never do. . . . Now, I wouldn't think of marrying a man like Adolph Menjou. I have had so many romantic affairs with little men and I do so like great, big men. And I like them blond." (See Mary Garden's similar taste, next article...
Divorced. Adolph Menjou, famed cinema actor; by Kathryn Menjou, in Los Angeles. He said she had made uncomplimentary references to his ancestors; she charged desertion, cruelty...
...cent of the total earnings," said the editorial, "have been reinvested in the business. . . ." To put 50 per cent of one's takings back into an enterprise is unusual; 95 per cent is phenomenal. Few men would do it. Yet this has been the policy of Adolph Ochs publisher, executed by Louis Wiley, business manager. Publisher Ochs is a grave, patrician gentleman, with a bland hand and a judicial eye. His name is the only exclamatory thing about him. He presents an assurance of stability, a hint of qualities that take capitals, an implication of old-worldness, of principles...