Word: film
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Half way through the film came a spurt of flame, a cloud of acrid black smoke from the projection booth. The cinema operator's assistant, quick-witted, tore the roll of blazing film from his machine ran with it to the manager who threw it out of a window. He was not in time to avert panic. Children, nerves atingle from the film play, screamed in terror, stampeded for the only exit they knew, the main door. Someone slipped...
...Telegraph one vote. Halsey, Stuart held Fox notes for $12,000,000 and American Telephone & Telegraph (through Electrical Research Products, Inc.) held notes for $15,000,000. According to a Halsey, Stuart official, Mr. Fox agreed to turn in the resignations of a majority of the directors of Fox Film Corp. and Fox Theatres Corp. But when the bankers asked for these resignations they were not forthcoming. Inasmuch as the present management cannot be displaced until April 15 (the annual stockholders' meeting) Mr. Fox has three and one-half months' grace. During this period he might, of course...
...Stock A Holders. Both Fox Film Corp. and Fox Theatres Corp. are organized on the basis of 100,000 shares of Class B voting stock and 900,000 shares of Class A non-voting stock, with Mr. Fox and his immediate associates holding the Class B and its attendant control.* Knowing that $900,000 in dividends were coming due Jan. 15, and that the trustees were planning to merge all the Fox corporations into a single holding company, holders...
...Film Class A threatened to institute a receivership suit, preferring a public settlement to whatever arrangements Mr. Fox and his bankers might or might not reach. But when Mr. Fox announced that Fox Film assets were $73,000,000 in excess of liabilities, the stockholders, reassured, decided that no immediate receivership was necessary. As another sedative for stockholders, the company also last week announced that it will soon launch a $20,000,000 production schedule, the biggest it has ever undertaken...
Sheehan. To many an observer of the tangled Fox situation, Winfield R. ("Winnie") Sheehan appeared as man-of-the-hour. Vice president and general manager of Fox Film Corp., Mr. Sheehan has been the operating genius of the Fox company. Joining the Fox organization in 1914, he organized Fox Foreign Exchanges in Canada, England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, on the Continent and in South America and the Far East. He was the first cineman to concentrate on the foreign market, from which today comes 40% of the industry's revenue. He founded Fox News and Fox Educational Department...