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...Vallee, Rod La Rocque, Owen Moore, Bebe Daniels, Betty Compson. Writers will include Ben Hecht, Charles McArthur, Eugene Walter, Viña Delmar. Thus among great film companies must be ranked Radio Corp., and to the list of cinema tycoons must be added the name of short, stocky David Sarnoff, Radio Corp.'s Vice President and General Manager. Inasmuch as Radio Corp. has in the past conducted many a merger, and since, like all young industries, Talking Cinema is much in the merger state, many have been the rumors that Radio Corp. will soon absorb one or another...
...circuits merged, the combination also acquiring control of F. B. O. Pictures Corp., cinema producer and distributor. In October 1928, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum combination sold control to Radio Corp. and Radio-Keith-Orpheum, a holding company, was formed. KAO lost money in 1928. The RKO management, with David Sarnoff as Board Chairman, showed an operating profit of $181,373 for the first quarter...
Board Chairman of Radio Corp. is Owen D. Young. President of Radio Corp. is Major General James Guthrie Harbord. Active manager, busy nerve-centre of so much merging and intricacy, is David Sarnoff, Vice President and General Manager. Born in Uzlian, Minsk, Russia, on a cold winter's day in 1891, Mr. Sarnoff arrived in the U. S. in 1900. He delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same...
...wireless operator at John Wanamaker's in 1912. When the Titanic sank, he stayed on the job for 72 hours getting the record of the disaster, the list of survivors. When Radio Corp. absorbed American Marconi, Mr. Sarnoff, the Commercial Manager, retained his position. He became General Manager in 1921, Vice President in 1922. Now he is a world figure. While his great and good friend, Owen D. Young, was formulating the famed Young Plan in Paris, he, conscientiously in the background, gave potent...
...concerned if the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. should take over Radio's newborn (TIME, April 1) subsidiary, R.C.A. Communications, Inc. So formal and so important was this friendly agreement that it at once was called an ACCORD. A price was mentioned, around $100,000,000. Vice President David Sarnoff of Radio and Nelson Dean Jay of Morgan's Paris house talked details. U. S. directors of both companies hastily met and approved...