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When Cinema Producer Joseph Schenck went to Florida last winter, he said his purpose was to look over studio sites for the companies of which he is president-United Artists and Twentieth Century, youngest and liveliest of the producing units whose pictures United Artists distributes (TIME, March 18). All but credulous Florida boosters supposed that his real purpose was to help the industry scare the California Legislature out of passing a proposed 35% income-tax bill. In Florida, Producer Schenck conferred with President Sidney Kent of Fox, ostensibly about a wild plan to have Florida...
...real estate boom of 1923-26. Disgruntled threats to go to Florida have been heard from the cinema industry every time California proposes a new tax on cinema production. Last week the California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes...
Less disadvantageous than it used to be in the days of much outdoor photography is the fact that southern Florida, besides being hotter than southern California in summer, is flat as a pancake, lacks all scenery except swamps, beaches, palms, truck gardens and fruit groves. Said optimistic Joe Schenck last week: "Transportation is the major asset and you have that. . . . If we have to have mountains, it isn't very far to the Carolinas...
President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists announced in Miami: "If Florida is on the alert, it will benefit to the extent of $150,000,000 a year on the film industry if Sinclair is elected." Not a whit of all this was lost on the campaign managers of Candidate Sinclair's opponents. But Wall Street was able to be amused as well as alarmed by what it called the "California-Here-I-Run" movement...
Married. Norma Talmadge, 36, cinemactress, recently divorced wife of Cinema Producer Joseph M. Schenck (TIME, April 23); and George Jessel, comedian; in Atlantic City...