President Robert Lieber of First National Pictures decided three months ago to build a cinema "city" for his productions at Burbank, Calif., in a mountain cranny which sprawling Los Angeles has not yet been able to annex.
His location picked and his plans drawn for some 40 buildings in Spanish-Moorish architecture, President Lieber decided that he wanted speedy construction. He called in. contractors, got their estimates, selected the Austin Company. This concern has branch offices throughout the country and specializes on unit construction, that is, buildings whose parts are standardized as to size...