Word: spitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman driver three traffic violations in one block when she explained that she had just discovered she was going to become a mother. In Louisville, Speeder Ernest L. Woods assured the judge that he was transporting an expectant mother, got fined $5 when she turned out to be a spitz...
Yours Is My Heart (music by Franz Lehar; book and lyrics by Ira Cobb and Karl Farkas; produced by Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris...
...only answer was to merge with an up & coming producer of A pictures. Results: 1) a new corporation, Universal-International, formed last week with Goetz as president and Hollywood lawyer Leo Spitz as board chairman (U-I will be to Universal what M-G-M is to Loew's); 2) the degeneration of once formidable Universal into a distributing company; 3) a hike of six points in Universal stock...
...example Hal Wallis, onetime production boss at Warner Brothers, had made a deal to use Paramount's studio facilities for his independent productions, and sold Paramount some stock. Hal Wallis did not collapse his corporations after every picture. But some of those set up by Leo Spitz, of International Pictures, Inc., (which grossed $24,000,000 on its first six productions) were suspect...
Under their deal with Rank, the present International Pictures, Inc. will be dissolved, a new International Pictures Corp. formed. It will be owned by Spitz (board chairman), Goetz (president) and Universal, will have $10,000,000 in U.S. operating capital...