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...RKO & Selznick
...improve the functionings of the Radio production staff. Pathe's vice president-in-charge-of-production, Charles G. Rogers, now also a vice president of RKO-Radio, will continue to be responsible for Pathe productions. Hollywood gossip however lost no time in concluding that the controlling figure in RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe would be David Selznick, that his policies would determine the management of both companies. In general, Radio pictures will, for the future, be made at a lower than average (for Hollywood) cost. The Selznick idea is to develop stars rather than buy them ready made; to recruit...
Appointed. David 0. Selznick, 28, resigned vice president of Paramount Pictures (TiME, Aug. 3); to be executive vice president in charge of production of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. which plans to merge studio facilities with RKO Pathe, Inc. As vice president of RKO Pathe, Mr. Selznick will be in charge of consummating the merger...
...drunken. Rowdies, angry at not being allowed to roll dice on the main deck, started to heave potted plants, get agitated. "Gimme two rods and I'll clean the place out" cried one voice to the horror of the stewards. The scene did not become quiet until eleven RKO girls and their social advisers came in, only to scurry to their cabins before amorous advances. John Quinlan, Master of Ceremonies, announced every event, was glad to announce the sunrise to all who watched it. Not until breakfast time were all heads bandaged, rigid bodies lugged to beds. When...
Hollywood's tribute to the super-sportsman Knute Rockne, "The Spirit of Notre Dame", has met with such approval at the RKO Keith Theatre that it has been held over for a second week. The film is a worthy culmination of a wave of panegyric which has rolled over the country since the untimely death of the Czar of American football...