CINEMA HIGH FINANCE
LORD BEAVERBROOK’S DEAL
The Joseph Sclienck Cinema Comwhich controls the United Artists’ circuit, announces that it has acquired a 25 per cent, interest in the new Standard Film Company, a British organisation (says the Sydney “Sun”). Lord Beaverbrook, the London newspaper proprietor, recently arrived in New York and completed the transaction with Schenck.
the two-a-day. It was at Chicago, I believe, that the much heralded baby comedian was scheduled to appear in the halls of the two-a-day. The momentous date of Snookums’s appearance arrived —and incidentally a spell of sickness for Snookums’s father, preventing his customary supervision. Snookums, exercising the divine right of stars, proceeded to express his temperament. The star —diminutive, it’s true, but still a star—simply refused to go through the bill. He was used to minding his father but when it came to others that was another matter. He threw himself down on the floor in the middle of the stage and refused to budge!.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 23
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161CINEMA HIGH FINANCE Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 276, 11 February 1928, Page 23
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