Word: keiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Keith's--"Second Wife", Conrad Nagel and also Lila Lee after a long absence...
...people realize, however, what a highly centralized industry the film business is," Mr. Alstock remarked. "There are just four big companies: Fox, which owns the chain of Loew theatres; Paramount, which controls the Publix theatres; Warner First National; and Radio Keith Orpheum. The latter is under the headship of the Radio Corporation of America. So one great company manufactures the radio sets on which you hear, hires artists to broadcast and to make comedy reels, and owns the theatres in which the reels are shown...
Since the Keith Memorial has taken to running only pictures, the high class vaudeville acts for which it was so noted have shifted to its sister theater, the Keith Albee, with the result that the pictures at the latter house are as a rule of lower calibre...
This week's bill at the Keith Albee, however, is an exception to that rule, for both the picture and the vaudeville is of the highest type. "Wedding Bells" featuring Lois Wilson and H. B. Warner is an unusually good movie, with its plot of an entirely different type from the average run of pictures...
...here and there, in a kind of chorus to the whole action, are prose-poem biographies of big men of the day-written half like news paper obituaries, half like Whitman poems: Eugene Victor Debs, "Big Bill'' Haywood, Luther Burbank, William Jennings Bryan, Minor Cooper Keith (founder of the United Fruit Co.), Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Alva Edison, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, "the most valuable piece of apparatus General Electric had"; Robert Marion La Follette...