Cinema: Variations Jan. 21, 1929

Joseph M. Schenck, president of United Artists, anxious to improve his golf, engaged as private tutor Leo Diegel, famed professional, paying him some say $12,000 for six weeks.

Asked last week whether he would endorse the Film Arts Guild (Manhattan organization for encouraging artistic films). Theodore Dreiser, novelist, said: ''The influence of the movies on the American public has been greater than any other force. . . . My sympathies and my appreciation will always be ... opposed to the American cinema magnates on the ground that they are more or less concentrated...

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