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Tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall the Harvard Film Society will begin its presentation of a series of memorable motion pictures with the "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," produced in 1906 and directed by Edwin S. Porter, in which Thomas Edison introduced trick photography for comic effect. The second picture on the program, "High and Dizzy," produced in 1920 and directed by Hal Roach, features Harold Lloyd and the first developments from slapstick. The last picture to be shown, "The Navigation," produced in 1924 and directed by Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton, contains the beginnings...
Biggest buyers were industrial plants, utilities, large owners of urban properties, big mercantile establishments. Gimbel Bros, and its affiliated stores went in for $64 million coverage; Consolidated Edison for $300 million; A.T. & T., $1.4 billion...
...Governor Edison of New Jersey promised resorts State aid in cleaning oil from their beaches, and bodies of seamen have been washed ashore as far north as Long Island...
...electrical cable filled with gas is now carrying high-voltage current for seven miles from a Detroit Edison Co. power plant to nearby arms factories. Built by General Cable Corp., it is the longest gas-filled cable in the world: a steel pipe through which run three one-inch copper ropes, separately insulated and packed in nitrogen gas at a pressure of 200 lb. per sq. in. There are a few other such cables, the first of which was installed in the U.S. by General Electric for the Yonkers (N.Y.) Electric Light & Power Co. as a refinement on oil-filled...
Statesman Edison put the issue of making Tom Meaney a judge up to the statesmen of the U.S. Senate...