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Number of customers 13,400,000 Number of employees 300,000 Incandescent lamps per customer 37.85 Residences wired 10,500,000 PHONOGRAPHS Number of phonographs manufactured per year 981,635 Number of records 98,104,279 Wage earners in the industry 23,505 CINEMA Feet of film made per month 65,000,000 Miles of film made per year (over) 150,000 Cinema houses in the U.S -17,836 Proportion of U.S. population estimated as attending cinemas regularly...
...Oxford undergraduates; and accepting that fact without moan, I wanted to discover whether they considered it necessary that mental processes should be entirely atrophied to secure proper enjoyment of the spectacle. I was relieved to find that some of them applied the same canons of aesthetic criticism to a film as to a painting, a building or a theatrical revue...
After a short preliminary talk Captain MacMillan showed 8,000 feet of moving picture film accompanied by a running series of comments. The speaker expanded on the Polar Esquimaux who live only 13 degrees from the North Pole...
...Senators (Washington, D. C., American League baseball team) handed a ball to the President, who pegged it, short and sure, to Walter Johnson. Thirty-two thousand fans applauded. The Washington season opened. Score: Washington 10, New York 1. ¶The President appeared and spoke through the DeForest Phono-film (see "SCIENCE). ¶Accompanied by Editor Col. George Harvey, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge went to a musical review at Poli...
Married. Samuel Goldwyn, 43, (original name Goldfish), film producer, onetime husband of Blanche Lasky (sister of Jesse L. Lasky of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation), to Miss Frances Howard, stage and screen actress; in Jersey City...