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...London's Mexicalia. In 1924 he completed his first cinema. Strike. Later, his pictures The Armored Cruiser Potemkin and Ten Days that Shook the World, photographically the most brilliant cinemas ever made, attracted the attention of Producer Jesse Lasky who gave fuzzy-haired, garrulous Director Eisenstein his Paramount contract, the world nothing...
...four-man staterooms. Experience has enabled the builders to cut down weight by 8,000 lb., increase speed. That the Macon may be pounded and riveted to completion next January, the House Appropriations Committee last week approved a final payment of $1,450.000 on the Navy's contract...
...that he was "aiming less at profundity than at setting in relief the pianist's virtuosity." Just the same he could not get his Concerto finished last year. It took him two years to write it, working ten and twelve hours a day. When it was done, his contract with Koussevitzky was already broken. Conductor Stokowski was also a potent leader with a penchant for doing "first times." What could be more diplomatic than to have both conductors present the Concerto simultaneously...
...company. When, two years ago, Paramount-Famous-Lasky became Paramount-Publix, Mr. Kent was made a vice president. From then on he kept a finger in every department. As a salesman and distributor he gained the confidence of the exhibitors and when the Government upset the "uniform standard contract'' in 1930 he was instrumental in having the 5-5-5 conference (five independents, five chain exhibitors, five distributors) reach a new agreement. Members of the conference still recall his fluent arguments and when he resigned from Paramount he was delighted to receive resolutions of praise from exhibitors...
...talent and reputation have flourished like a green bay tree, of which some others would like to share the fruits. To get a "better perspective" of his native U. S. A., he lives mostly in France (he is there, at Senlis. now). A reputed $100,000 cinema contract lured him in 1930 to Hollywood but he prematurely returned, agreeing with his wife that "it was a dream." With A Modern-Hero Bromfield's old and profitable contract with Publisher Stokes ends. When young Publishers John Farrar &; Stanley Rinehart bought out Hearst-owned Cosmopolitan Book Corp. in 1931, trade talk...