Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus Talking Cinema, youngest world industry, thrived lustily, showed symptoms of forcing its parent, Silent Cinema, and its grandparent. Legitimate Drama, back into the sparser portions of the entertainment field...
From radio the expansion into the phonograph business was logical inasmuch as the old-style phonograph, failing to compete with radio sets, went, in for electric reproduction and also for combination radio-phonographs. Radio Corp. entered the phonograph field by supplying Brunswick-Balke-Collender and later Victor Talking Machine with the radio and the electric drive for their combination machines. Last winter Radio and Victor directors agreed on Radio's absorption of Victor. Radio-Victor Corp. is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Radio Corp...
Entrance into the theatrical field resulted partly from the invention of Photophone, the talking cinema mechanism perfected by Westinghouse and General Electric engineers, and partly from Radio Corp.'s realization of the potential profits in electrical entertainment on the largest possible scale. R. C. A. Photophone, Inc. was incorporated in 1927, functioned for the sale and distribution of Photophones. In January 1928, the Keith-Albee and Orpheum theatre circuits merged, the combination also acquiring control of F. B. O. Pictures Corp., cinema producer and distributor. In October 1928, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum combination sold control to Radio Corp...
Obstructions. The fence which the old Westbury Golf Club intends to put up to keep Roosevelt Field, L. I., flyers from scaring players and tearing up the turf (TIME, July 1), is to consist of steel towers 103 ft. high, 300 ft. apart, with steel wires connecting them, according to last week's plans...
...McCall's competitors, five are outstanding in the mass-publication field. It is probably a fact that if the publishers should transpose their covers, few readers could distinguish one of the Women's Group from another. But there are differences of size, value and fine distinctions of policy. The big five: Ladies Home Journal (circulation, 2,538,412), Pictorial Review (2,523,384), Woman's Home Companion (2,274,657), Delineator (2,300,000), Good Housekeeping...