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Born in Cherry Valley, N. Y., swart-skinned, jet-haired Douglas Brown whose ancestors were Mohawks was an Army officer at the age of 17, graduated from Harvard (1920) at an untimely age. He answered one of Thomas Alva Edison's famed questionnaires so astutely that he got a position in the Edison laboratories, specializing in lighting. To the cinema studios then went he and invented special lighting effects for Gloria Swanson's The Humming Bird. Drifting to New Orleans, he became manager of a Little Theatre, hobnobbed with the intelligentsia of Tulane University. Somebody told...
...room on the first floor of Pierce Hall. The generating station, of which the model is an exact representation, contains four turbines yielding a total of 200,000 horsepower. This is sent over an 145 mile three phase line at a potential of 220,000 volts to the Boston Edison Company's power station at Woburn for re-delivery. The water power station is one of the largest in New England and operates on the highest voltage used anywhere in the country...
Wilber Huston, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship, sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was twice captured by freshmen, twice escaped during annual interclass roughhousing...
...price compares to $495,000, the high for a seat after deducting "rights" last year. Elected to the Exchange last week was John Francis Murray, son of the late Inventor Thomas Edward Murray, said to have obtained more patents than any other inventor except Thomas Alva Edison (TIME, May 25, 1925; March 17). Son Murray, a member of the Port of New York Authority, was long connected with Murray Radiator Co., sold recently to American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp...
...love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...