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...Grotkowski with a party of friends celebrated the end of a week's work at the University of Lwow (pronounced Lvoof) by getting a skinful of vodka at a local Café. Into the same Café came four self-assured young Jews: M. Katz, S. Keller, N. Schmer, and Isaac Tune, accompanied by a complaisant young lady of the town. The sight offended Student Grotkowski. Loudly and insolently he insulted them. Some member of the Katz, Keller, Schmer & Tune party stabbed him in the back...
...Katz resigned from Paramount Publix Corp. in which he was a director, vice president and member of the executive committee...
...cinema company, issuing stock to pay for expansions. Then it was revealed that it had agreed to buy its stock back should it drop. The late William Wrigley Jr. (gum), Albert Davis Lasker (advertising) and John Daniel Hertz (taxicabs), all Chicagoans, began buying into Paramount. Their man was Sam Katz, of Chicago's Balaban & Katz chain of cinema theatres. At 13 he had played the piano in Carl Laemmle's first 5? cinema theatre on Chicago's west side. At 16 he owned a theatre with 144 folding chairs; soon he bought 130 more chairs; soon...
...Katz became stronger in Paramount. Lasky and Zukor lost caste but Zukor kept his figurehead presidency. Lasky's last ace was his long-term contract, said to give him $9,000 a week. The final squabbles evidently concerned the cost of buying in this gold-plated contract. Before he left on his leave of absence, Lasky had given Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument...
...Paramount production regime is Emanuel ("Manny") Cohen whose chin rises not far above his desk edge. The question was: could he produce the pictures? The answer last week seemed to be: maybe not. For when Katz edged out Lasky. he pulled Schulberg back to produce eight pictures a year under Cohen's supervision. At the same time, he offered Lasky a chance to produce three a year under Cohen's eye. Schulberg accepted. Lasky refused...