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Died. Thomas Armat, 81, inventor of the Vitascope (film projector), which paved the way for the modern movie industry; in Washington. He regarded his invention as "just a side issue" and agreed to let Thomas A. Edison's name be attached to it for commercial reasons (but Armat got rich on the patent rights). Last March Hollywood awarded him a special Oscar for the "debt...
...Scars. Old (85), rich Charles Pathé, now in retirement at Monte Carlo, had hatched the bird back in 1897. "I did not invent the cinema," he once said, "but I industrialized it." On money made from selling the first Edison Kinetoscopes (the original peephole movie), he launched into making film, cameras and movies on his own, bought and built theaters, pioneered newsreels and the first amateur movies...
Griffith tried writing for pictures, but the Edison Co. rejected his scenarios. When (in 1907) they hired him as an actor, to wrestle with a stuffed eagle in an old-fashioned cliffhanger, he attached himself to the movies and never, voluntarily, left them again. But until his third contract as a director with Biograph, his pride would not permit him to sign himself David Griffith...
Ready for a Change. Why had they all deserted? The reason was as old as American politics. They knew that too many voters agreed with New Jersey's ex-Governor Charles Edison, a Republican-turned-Democrat who announced his return to the G.O.P. with the cry: "Our governmental house is choked with litter and rubbish. We must have a complete change of management. The two-party system was evolved to accomplish just that...
...Bartók, both ardent nationals in music, had squirmed together at the Budapest Conservatory under German professors who, snorts Kodály, "couldn't even speak Hungarian." They had tramped the hills recording more than 6,000 samples of folk music on a primitive Edison machine-and each used this folk music as a base, though what each did with the music was different. Bartok loved stubborn dissonances and wild rhythms; Kodaly preferred to be lyrical and simple. Says Kodaly: "Bartok was more eager to find new-effects and possibilities. I was content with less. I am still...