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...Metropolitan's big old board chairman, who was not in costume but stayed up to the very end. Upstairs the sedate refreshment room had been transformed into a beer garden with a gambling salon leading off it. Next winter in that refreshment room, grey-haired, flat-faced Emil Katz will go on serving sandwiches and coffee as he has done since the days when his idol, Anton Seidl, was conducting at the Metropolitan. Even with the $300,000 raised, the season will be shorter than it has been for 31 years. It will not open until the night after...
HARVARD JAYVEES TUFTS Carr, 2b. 2b., Leslie Kiernan, ss. lf., Galuska Lee, 3b. ss., Tyrance McGoodwin, 1b. cf., Woodworth McTigue, rf. rf., Roberti Scott, c. 1b., Katz Choate, cf. 3b., Baronian Fletcher, lf. c., Budilov Victor or Lanier, p. p., DeAngelo...
Last week the following were news: Largest chain of cinemansions in the Midwest is Chicago's Balaban & Katz Corp., first to install theatre refrigeration, first to cut dull shots from newsreels. When Paramount Publix Corp. acquired Balaban & Katz seven years ago B. & K.'s president, Sam Katz, became Paramount Publix's vice president in charge of theatre operations. For the past two years Paramount Publix has not been doing so well (see p. 46), nor has B. & K., which lately passed its $7 preferred stock dividend. Two months ago Sam Katz resigned from Paramount Publix after directors...
...directors immediately elected Barney Balaban, longtime secretary-treasurer and financial head of the company. Oldest of seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into the theatre business before the War, organized B. & K. with Sam Katz in 1917. He had three brothers in B. & K. with him, one of whom, John, was elected last week to succeed him as secretary-treasurer. One brother is dead; one left the show business to become a Christian Science reader. Barney Balaban is 46, bald, quiet, reserved, able. He rides horseback...
...resigned as chairman of Paramount Publix's finance committee. Direct cause of his move was a conflict with President Adolph Zukor, 60 last week, over "the technical limitations upon the authority of various officers.'' Other important resignations from the company in recent months have included Sam Katz, onetime close Hertz ally. Sidney Kent, Jesse Lasky. Mr. Hertz entered Paramount's affairs 14 months ago at the "suggestion" of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., bankers and creditors of the company. Last week Mr. Hertz said. "I was only a surgeon." referring to the $39.000.000 he lopped off the company...