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...parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn, Loeb gladly underwrote its bonds, was in line early. Innocent-looking contracts to repurchase its own stock at $80 per share had tripped Paramount. Disgruntled bondholders grabbed at a new means to throw Associated Gas & Electric into the courts. Others include...
Lost. A $250,000 suit by Singer Helen Kane; against Paramount Publix Corp., Cartoonist Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc.; in Manhattan. Charges: ''Betty Boop" cinema strips imitated the Kane face, gestures, "boop-boop-a-doop" singing (TIME, April...
...that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through Paramount, successfully sued a doll manufacturer for imitating Betty Boop. Last week it was Producer Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corp. who were sued by Helen Kane for $250,000 for copying her voice and mannerisms...
...first time the U. S. public learned what the editor of its biggest magazine was paid. The salary of Sateve-post's George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than...
...Jesse L. Lasky 1929 (Paramount Publix...