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...Corp. of America, bought "certain assets" of the Pathe company. These assets included the crowing cock trademark, the three actresses, the library. They did not include the 49% interest which Pathe holds in the profitable Du Pont-Pathe Film Manufacturing Corp. The merger will do away with an awkward contract under which Radio-Keith-Orpheum houses had to play a certain number of Pathe | pictures yearly. Each company will keep on making and distributing its own pictures...
Casey's appointment comes not as a surprise but as the logical follow up on the resignation of Horween. After the expiration of his three year contract at the end of the 1928 season Horween was persuaded to come back for another year and again in 1929 he yielded to the wishes of Director of Athletics Bingham and the players and returned for the season just concluded. At the time of the Army game this year Horween intimated that this would definitely be his last year and immediately after the Yale game he made it known that he would...
Block Booking. For the past four or five years U. S. cinemagnates, combined as Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, Inc. (Will Hays, president), have striven to stabilize their industry. To this end they tried to make all theatre-owners contract for films-good or bad-a year ahead. This practice is called "block booking." To facilitate booking, block and "spot," the producers created 32 Film Boards of Trade. To these boards they gave powers of credit-approval. Into the contracts with theatre-owners they inserted a provision that, should credit disputes arise, Credit Committees of these boards might arbitrate...
...similar yet as opposite as the poles of an electric cell are Calvin Coolidge and Alfred Emanuel Smith. The nearer the parallel of their careers, the more emphatic the difference in the men. Last week Citizen Smith followed another turn in Citizen Coolidge's tracks, signed a contract to write a newspaper colyum. Under the probable heading "The State of the Nation," Colyumist Smith will write (beginning Jan. 4) for McNaught Syndicate between 1,000 and 1,500 words for each Sunday-the one day of the week when Colyumist Coolidge does not appear. He may discuss "politics...
...bagging of Colyumist Smith ended six years of persistent stalking by McNaught's General Manager Charles V. McAdam. The fight with rival syndicates was bitter at the finish. Hardly was the ink dry on the contract when orders for the Smith colyum began to pour in. Among the first to buy it: Scranton Republican, Boston Globe, Louisville Herald-Post...