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Wadsworth House is one of the oldest buildings in the Harvard Yard. Built in 1726, it was occupied by the presidents of Harvard from Benjamin Wadsworth of Harvard for 100 years...
Pilot Hutchinson would have made a particularly wry face over the Evening Post's blunt comment, for in 1925 he narrowly missed being clapped in jail for embezzling $34,220 while employed as a bookkeeper in Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Trust Co. Obtaining a suspended sentence by agreeing to turn over 10% of his earnings to his bonding company, he was paroled for 25 years. He is now out of Pennsylvania by permission of the chief parole officer...
...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 of distribution. All had been inoculated with the old-school extravagance of gold-plated cinema production. The fingers of their hands spread unconsciously, letting millions through...
...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...
Died. Joseph Benjamin Dabney, 74, California oil man and philanthropist: of heart disease; at Santa Barbara. He pioneered in the Bakersfield oil fields, helped develop the Ventura field after most big companies had despaired...