Word: cinemae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People go to the cinema 1) to keep cool; 2) to be in the dark; 3) to kill time; 4) to be entertained...
Then along came the apparel merchants and an architect named Walter W. Ahl-schlager, 41, who had created Roxy's cinema cathedral in Manhattan, apparently out of golden dough. They would show Chicago something to write postcards about-the largest and tallest building in the world-75 stories and 845 feet high . . . containing 4,650,000 sq. ft. of floor space . . . costing $45,000.000 . . . covering two blocks with its base . . . comprising a 23 story "apparel-mart" near the ground . . . above that 22 stories of office space . . . above that a 1,000 room hotel ... a garage containing space...
Mayor Walker, touring the West in the interests of the Brown Derby, visited Hollywood last week. Abruptly, unexpectedly, he took the Messrs. Schenck and Mayer, though not by name, as the text for a sermon to the cinema industry. He warned it to be nonpartisan. He reminded it that public officials such as himself had power over Sunday theatre laws, for example. He said he hoped that cinemen "are not so enslaved that they can be handed over" by two or three leaders in the industry. He warned that should the industry "dabble in politics" and choose the losing side...
...cinema industry was astonished. Producers marveled that so spry a product of the peepul as James John Walker should have failed to appreciate how dangerous it would be for cinemakers to provoke the prejudices of their gum-chewing public, by showing political bias on the screen. They marveled that so shrewd a person as Mayor Walker should have underestimated the shrewdness of the cinemen. The Messrs. Schenck and Mayer called Mayor Walker's warnings "extremely amusing." Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays ignored the incident...
...Masonic Temple, where the convention held its sessions, the exposition was placed on the ground floor. Here could be seen, in 300 booths, the result of the enterprise of 225 individual exhibitors. Newssheets, manufacturers, magazines, cinema companies, mechanical contrivances were brought to the attention of the advertising men. Upstairs the convention functioned, deciding among other things, that despite the advantages of radio advertising, newspaper and magazines were still the best mediums for comprehensive campaigns; next to newspapers, magazines. On the last day of their convention, they selected Minneapolis, after many words in favor of Berlin, as the scene of next...