1930-05-17—Brooklyn Eagle—Court Halts Talkie Stock Sale for a Mormon Movie

Court Halts Talkie Stock Sale for a Mormon Movie

Brooklyn Eagle, May 17, 1930, p. 1

Court Halts Talkie Stock Sale for a Mormon Movie

A corporation formed to promote a talking motion picture based on the legendary first white inhabitants of America, whose story is told in the prophecies of Mormon, has been temporarily enjoined from further dealings in its stock, it was announced today at the Statte Bureau of Securities.

Supreme Court Justice Johnston had already signed an order requiring the firm, the Corianton Corporation of 160 W. 44th St., Manhattan, Napoleon Hill and Lester Park, to show cause why the order should not be made permanent.

"Corianton," the work of an author named Orestes U. Bean, records the goings-on among the people who, according to the revelations of Mormonism, founded the first white civilization in the Western Hemisphere.

The outfit's directors were Park, his brothers, Byron and Allan, and Author Bean. Part of the stock was to be sold to the public and the rest retained by the promoters, the State says.