Word: filmland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...club's second meeting, the services of Professor N. A. Milas of M.I.T. have been secured. Professor Milas will speak on "Auto-oxidation and Organic Peroxides," and will give a rather spectacular demonstration of Leminescence. The movie "A Trip Through Filmland" will be shown. At the December meeting, Professor Louis Fieser of Harvard will present a lecture with demonstrations on his recent cancer investigations. Additional movies being considered are "Extraction of Bremine from Sea Water," 'Electrical Refrigeration." and "The Mining of Sulfur...
...bald, acquisitive William Fox was the grand panjandrum of filmland. Next year he was ousted from control of his companies by a coalition of creditors. With $21,000,000 in cold cash and a five-year pension of $500,000 annually, he was well able to finance a comeback if he could find something to come back with. He thought he had it in patents, bought abroad and transferred to his personal holding company, covering the "double print" method of recording both sound and picture on a single film and the "sprocket" or "flywheel" method of reproduction, which were universally...
...story is concerned with the rise in filmland first of the Kellys through the efforts of the daughter Kitty through the efforts of the daughter Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except...
...were already claimed, so Futura has brought together six of the smaller ones.† totalling 1,345 stores, has persuaded them to distribute Futura magazines for 10?. Result: on 1,345 counters this week appeared 500,000 copies of Love Mirror ("Greatest 10 Cent Fiction Magazine") and Movie Mirror ("Filmland's Most Beautiful Magazine...