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tory, with Aylesworth, Spitz and Depinet acting for RKO Radio and Walt, Roy Disney, vice-president, and Gunther Lessing, general counsel, representing the Disney enterprises. Under a long-term contract, which included one feature, such internationally popular stars as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Pluto the Pup and Horace Horsecollar lined up with the company's long list of popular players.
Through a vote in that year of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, four of the Society's gold statuettes were awarded to as many members of the production staff of "The Informer" in recognition of having performed the best work for 1935. The statuette for the best performance among actors was presented to Victor McLaglen; for the best direction, to John Ford; for the best screenplay, to Dudley Nichols, and for the best scoring, to Max Steiner.
RKO Radio made westerns an important fixed factor of its annual programs when George O'Brien was signed for six sagebrush action productions and O'Brien has been RKO Radio's western stand-by since that date.
The standout features for 1936 were "The Witness Chair," (Ann Harding and Walter Abel), "Mary of Scotland" (Katharine Hepburn and Fredric March) , "Swing
Time" (Astaire-Rogers) , "A Woman Rebels" (Hepburn), "Winterset" (Burgess Meredith), "Sylvia Scarlett" (Hepburn and Cary Grant) .
Walt Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was given a gala premiere at the Carthay Circle in Hollywood in December of '37. The first full length picture by Disney was looked upon as an important event in motion picture development and with the whole industry regarding it in the light of a milestone such as the coming of sound or the invention of color, it opened with attendant splendor and in its runs throughout the world set box-office records right and left and carried with it new goodwill for the entire motion picture business.
In FEBRUARY, 1937, M. H. Aylesworth, chairman of the board of Radio Keith Orpheum Corp., and its main subsidiaries, announced that he would become a member of the management board of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers and that he would retire from RKO at an early date. Aylesworth became president of Radio Keith Orpheum Corp. in 1932 and in 193 5 was selected chairman of the board of directors. He resigned from the presidency of the National Broadcasting Com
Where RKO Radio Pictures are born. Air view of the company's studios in Hollywood, a city within a city, — consisting of 13 acres of buildings. Latter comprise 178,642 square feet. There are 15 huge, modern sound stages, a police department of 30 trained men, a fire department of 1U expert fire ngnters and 2,500 employees!
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