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...owner, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty, remembered the Stolen Property Act. Department of Justice agents reopened the case, got the two thieves sentenced to 25 years in prison. More important, the Miami chief of detectives informed them that it was Noel Scaffa who had delivered the jewels, that a split of the insurance company's $15,000 reward had been planned with a Scaffa operative in for $1,000. A Federal Grand Jury in New York promptly summoned Detective Scaffa for questioning. Chief J. Edgar Hoover let it be known that his Federal Bureau of Investigation was about to crack...
...producing genius of excitable little Darryl Zanuck. The company was organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded United Artists' President Schenck to back his new company, release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck's good friend Winfield Sheehan is production chief but where Jesse...
...latest Ford balance sheet revealed that the Man of Dearborn and his son had quietly cut a stock melon during 1934. The old $100 par shares had been split 20-for-1 into 3,452,000 shares of $5 par value. Surplus & reserves at the year end stood...
Norman Mendleson started the Crimson winning streak, by beating James of the Academy 5 and 4. Don Prouty split with Henderson, Prouty winning the low ball. Fred Olson trounced Mason of the New Hampshire school, by the one-sided score of 6 and 4, and in the last match of the day, Bob Sides lost to Heller of Exeter...
...record blues and greens. The chief faults in this process were that it blurred all outlines, failed to register either pure blue or pure yellow and had a range limited to garish greens and oranges. By 1932, Dr. Kalmus had a new process based on a camera which split light through a three-sided prism onto three negatives (red, blue and yellow), which recorded all the colors of the rainbow with fidelity. By this time the only producer who would listen to him was Walt Disney, whose Silly Symphonies in 1932 were the first movies made with the new three...