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Maurice Kann, Film Daily, New York, April 1, 1929.

Red Kann Is on his way!

(...) Motion Picture Herald, Feb. 15, 1936

& United Artists (creator), Charging that the Fox West Coast

Theatres constitute an arrogant monopoly which seeks to stifle

the endeavor pf motion picture artists and producers,

these world famous personalities of the United Artists organization

have announced they, if necessary, will show their pictures

in tents, armories and halls, but in the future will not show them

in the theatres of the Fox West Coast „trust.“ Al Jolson,

Mary Pickford, in one of the costumes she wears in her latest

picture, „Kid;“ Ronald Colman, Gloria Swanson, Douglas

Fairbanks, Joseph M. Schenck, president and chairman of the

board of the United Artists Corporation; Charley Chaplin,

Samuel Goldwyn, Eddie Cantor, Los Angeles, 1930, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

„That deal is set to go“

Editorial content. „Step Carefully“ (...)

      „Merger Time

      Spring fever is identical with merger fever. Medical

science may explode the theory higher than a kite.

It is a fact, however, that spring days are also merger days.

Take the United Artists-Warner situation, by way

of example. Joe Schenck declares there will be no deal

unless all U. A. members concur. Chaplin declares

he will kick over the traces. Perhaps he will, but if Hollywood

research and New York investigation mean anything,

that deal is set to go.“ (...)

                                                                                   „KANN“

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