Universal Weekly (1924-1936)

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34 Universal Weekly Vol. 24, No. 11 Laemmle Receives Royal Welcome (Continued from Page 13) His word is as good as his bond — and I have reason to express myself in that way, because I had his word and he has made his word as good as his bond. "The picture business is not just new to me, as many might think — I go back to its very beginnings. I don't know of anyone that could write the history of my experiences better than the man you are honoring today. But I do most sincerely, with all my heart, welcome him. When I heard, as the rest of you here, and as all of you who are in the Universal employ must have heard and felt the deepest sympathy, if I could have reached out my heart, my feelings, my wishes to have brought him back, as he has been .brought back, I certainly would have done it alone with the feeling I have for him. I want to thank you." Earl V. Hammons, president of Educational Pictures Corporation, who was in London at the same time that Mr. Laemmle was lying there so near to death, was the last to speak. "Mr. Laemmle," he said, "as you know, I am one of the young ones in the motion pictures, but ever since I have icnown you I have had a very great admiration for you, and, as you know, I have met you any number of times in the past years on very friendly relations. "I happened to be in London at the time you were brought off the boat in a very serious condition and it gave me a great sense of pride in going around London to see the great interest and the great anxiety that was displayed in your condition. It was as though some member of the royal family were ill. The inquiries everyone made about you — 'How is Laemmle today?' 'Is Mr. Laemmle better?' — and how your praises were sung. It gave me a great deal of pride to say I knew you intimately and join them in wishing your recovery. And it gives me today wonderful pleasure to be able to be one of those welcoming you home." Mr. Lapmmle, ovprcome by his emotions, and the tremendous force of this welcome and congratulation upon his veturn to health and home, replied: "I wish I could say what is in my heart. I just can't do it. In the first place, I never knew how to make a speech, but what has just hanpened in this room is so marvelous that even if I could make one I couldn't say anything now. That is the way I feel about it. I just want to say 'thank you' a thousand times, thank you — all of you. You have given me a few moments that I shall never forget to my dying day." The members of the official welcoming committee on hand to assure Laemmle that his homecoming meant more than mere words to the motion picture industry were Will H. Hays, Hugo Riesenfeld, Col. G. McL. Baynes of Kinograms, Henry M. Hobart of Distinctive, William Fox, Earl V. Hammons, Elmer Pearson, J. J. Murdock. R. F. Woodhull, J. A. Jacobs of Bray, Arthur James, Epes W. Sargent, John Spargo, William A. Johnston, Maurice Kann, Fred J. McConnell, James Milligan, Miss Louella Parsons, Jules Brulatour, Ex-Governor Milliken, Cortlandt Smith, Vernon Carrick, Jack Cosman, Siegfried Hartman, Dr. Jesse Heiman, Paul Shields of Shields & Co., Karl Behr of Dillon Read Co., Dean Mathew of the same organization, Al Mayer of Photo Repro, I. N. Landauer, and Miss Marion Nixon, Universal star. Miss Nixon conveyed to Mr. Laemmle the welcome sentiments of the studio force, the stars and players at Universal City, and those of his many other well-wishers on the West Coast. Her role in this capacity was an unusual one, inasmuch a.s she is at present in New York being featured in a Fox picture, "The Auctioneer," having been loaned to the Fox organization by Universal for this purpose. It was a gala day at the Universal home office. After the welcoming ceremonies were over, an orchestra was called in, desks were pushed back, a caterer was summoned and the remainder of the day was devoted to dancing and refreshment. Mr. Laemmle's party returning from Europe included his children, Miss Rosahelle and Carl Laemmle, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Abe Stern and Julius Stern of the Stern Film Corporation, and Jack Ross, his private secretary, and several servants, E. H. Goldstein, treasurer of Universal, joined the Universal chief on the boat at Quarantine as the first bearer of welcome. R. H. Cochrane, vice-president, P. D. Cochrane, secretary, Lou B. Metzs:er, general sales manager, and other officials and executives formed the nucleus of the welcoming committee at the pier. The homecoming arrangements wer? handled by Paul Gulick, director of publicity, and Joe Weil, director of exploitation for Universal. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIMIIIirilMinilllllllllMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIi Wise Sayings from Our Traveling Sheiks Joe Weinberg: "Al Gould sometimes keeps his promises." Leo Abrams: "Long Island is both the land of the sunrise trail and Universal Pictures." Jack Meyers: "Small & Strassberg are the people." Ben Price: "Bims new Endicott is a Wow." Max Cohen: "Lou Goldberg is a better actor than Barrymore." Joe Friedman: "Jack ,SokolofT's vacation is not owing to Mayfair, Marine and his other temples now building." Sigward Kusiel: "South Brooklyn exhibitors are not the only ones he worries about." Phil Winnick: "Morris Kutinsky is the King of Jersey City, long live the King." Les Sherwood: "Dave Snapper still buys film by the pound." Lew Levy: "The boss is home, he cannot tell a lie." Geo. Ross: "Nat Chrystmos, Jr., is the Crown Prince of Macedonia, long may he rule." Jack Denton: "The new front on Cohen's theatre makes it look like a bank." Herman Stern: "Hoffman of Morristown is a prince of a good fellow." Richland best bet." "Fabian & Stern are my — Ali Hartman $1,.500,000 PRODUCTION BUDGET PLANNED BY STERNS (Continued from Page 26) prophesy enviable popularity for the comedies. "Following the completion of our current series, 'The NewljTveds and Their Baby,' the new Buster Brown comedies, 'The Excuse Maker' series, the 'Let George Do It' series and the 'What Happened to Jane' series, we will begin follow-up series of most, if not all, of these series. We also ^^^ll put several new series into production. These will be even bigger than our present series, to be made from material purchased from big authors, details of which will be forthcoming soon. "We are out to make comedies that cannot be equalled, and we are going to succeed. Our exhibitor patrons are counting on us to take full advantage of the present trend toward high-class feature comedies. We pledge ourselves to make two-reelers that can be featured in any theatre on any program."