Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three ways. If an American company produces films in France permits will be issued to it. Or an American company may buy a French film and permits, but is under no obligations to exhibit the film. In the third case, it may buy import permits outright from a French exhibitor who has bought a film and permits...
...even void of humor, the only thing that could possibly have excused its appearance in print, and contains only enough of official data to make it more insidiously poison to the uninitiated in its apparent effort to condemn the dog, the exhibitor and the bench show, and since the owners of the kennels you have listed are good sports and real lovers of the dog, you may be assured that they will feel the same about this article, uninteresting to the sportsman and misleading to the public...
...order to secure such honors, dog-fanciers, like the owners of racing stables, will sometimes descend to low and disgraceful practices. For example, Mrs. Florence B. Ilch, highly successful exhibitor of collies, aroused the professional jealousy of, it is surmised, an unscrupulous competitor. This competitor was aware that Mrs. Ilch was afflicted with a weak heart, that she had two sons who go to college. Accordingly, when she was on the point of leading her first entry into the ring, the competitor sent Mrs. Florence Ilch a telegram which read as follows: "Hurry to New Haven immediately, son, James, killed...
...immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor, producer, distributor of films. Last March he bought the Roxy Theatre in Manhattan for "more than $15,000,000" two weeks after it opened. Seating 6,200 people it has been called the "largest theatre in the world," has been entirely filled at practically every performance, to his great profit...
...jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks. Some walked, some trotted, jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and lost. To add to the illusion, a clatter of old time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge had postponed a 30 day sentence for violation of liquor laws that he might show his animal, Halerood...