Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Wolf Lamar, heavy, well-dressed, soft-voiced, continued to fulfill the common conception of his type. Cool, bland, he appeared unimpressed by charges that he had been conducting a brokerage business under the name of Murdock & Co., had failed to deliver 2,500 shares of Fox Film, could not account for the proceeds from 1,000 Grigsby-Grunow. His attitude coincided with that of his attorney who said: "The charges are a thousand miles from grand larceny." Reticent about himself, Wolf Lamar continued uttering such ultimatums as: "It is a bull market today and bear operators will...
...that in his 14 years on the Journal he made more than $3,000,000 profit for the paper in theatrical advertising; that he was responsible for the $5,000,000 contract between Hearst and Famous Players; for the $2,000,000 contract between Hearst's newsreel and Universal Film Corp.; for various successes of Hearst's Cinemactress Marion Davies. He left the Journal to start Zit's Weekly in 1921, with the gratitude of Publisher Hearst who continued to pay him $1,000 a week until two years...
Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...
Married. Vivian Duncan, dancer (punched in the eye two weeks ago, TIME, Aug. 4); to Nils Asther, Swedish film star; in Reno...
...supervision. There must be due respect, no garbled versions, no duplication. To prevent such contingencies an agreement was reached last week in Vienna between the combined German State theatres of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony, and the Vienna State Opera. Most important clause is that on non-duplication. To German film companies goes the exclusive right to produce Wagnerian opera; to Viennese, the rights to lighter productions, non-Wagnerian, such as Richard Strauss, Mozart, Rossini...