Book excerpt: Excerpt from Showmen's Trade Review, Vol. 51: The Service Paper of the Motion Picture Industry; Oct-Dec 1949 After a special meeting of mgm top executives, producers and Studio Chiefs Louis B. Mayer and Dore Schary, over hauling of the entire studio operation was ordered in an effort to trim waste. The move was said to be intended to offset the anticipated effect of British devaluation and to enable the studio to make quality pictures at costs which would permit a profit from the domestic market. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.