Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Akins, Gilbert Emery, Cyril Hume, Owen Davis, George Middleton, Clare Kummer and many another. Prospective Fox talking features include Earl Derr Diggers' Behind That Curtain, Laurence Stallings' and Maxwell Anderson's The Cock-Eyed World, Jerome K. Jerome's The Passing of the Third Floor Back, and the first of an annual revue series called Fox Movietone Follies...
...polish which his father made over the family stove. Later, he sponged pants, coats in a Manhattan tailoring shop. Still later he cut out cloak and suit patterns for $17 a week. Twenty-five years ago, when feature pictures were 500 feet long, Cineman Fox opened, in Brooklyn, his first theatre. Nobody came to see the show, so finally he hired sleight-of-hand artists to do tricks in the lobby and attract a crowd. There followed many a theatre in Brooklyn, Manhattan, the Bronx, and eventual expansion into one of the world's most colossal enterprises ruled...
...fastest in the World (TIME, Aug. 27). There was a great swelling throb of joy in the solemn throat of Old Paul von Hindenburg as he launched the Bremen with these words: "Seventy years ago [when President Hindenburg was ten] the then young North German Lloyd launched its first vessel for trans-Atlantic service. It gave the craft the name of Bremen. . . . Now it is our wish to give this newest and largest vessel of Germany's revived fleet to its elements. . . . I hail the Bremen and the Europa as new links between Europe and America. I hail them...
...They will reach Germany within six times 24 hours after they leave New York." Only the Bremen is now left to make such a record six-day crossing to Germany in 1929-all other ships on that run now take nine days and upwards. Damage to the Europa-at first believed a total loss-was eventually found, last week, to involve only a $3,000,000 gutting of cabins, salons and gear. The hull was declared sound, and bulkheads with automatic fire doors saved the boilers, turbines and other propelling machinery. On her maiden voyage she would have carried...
...deck "Night Club"-an intimate restaurant purposely removed as far as possible from the cabins of those who prefer sleep to giggle water. As in the newest Dutch liner Statendam, the German fliers will have Tourist Third Class accommodation of a luxury not found in the First Class of many small and old eight-day boats. Today the fastest ship in the world is still the Mauretania but with the advent of the Bremen a new speed queen should reign on the Atlantic, at least until 1930. The largest German motor ship, M. S. St. Louis of the Hamburg-American...