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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tinkered with wires and electrical apparatus. At 27, he had designed the first open coil dynamo, following this with an arc lamp, the "ring clutch," in which the carbon is clutched by a ring attached to an armature which automatically keeps the light steady. This not only solved a long standing difficulty but brought the price to street level. Three years later (1879) the Public Square in Cleveland glowed under the first public arc lights...
...narrow escape, she persuades her young pal (Richard Arlen) to give up the gun game, marry her, take her away to a little home in California. There she is as loving a wife as any man could wish. But her husband grows restless; he cannot be happy for long unless he has a gun in his hand. He goes back into the racket; and she, loyal but violently protesting, goes with him. And finally . . . no, that would be telling too much. Ladies of the Mob is excellent entertainment, if you refrain from getting analytical about the plot...
Creation of a European film cartel to battle the U. S. invasion, long held a possibility, last week became a reality. Herr Klitsch, director-general of the famed UFA, is the organizer of the cartel, which includes the Institute Nazionale Luce of Rome and, possibly, French producers...
Patriotically, they noted that in time of war the U. S. could squeeze its own dough, ooze it through its own long, skinny tubes, hang it up in its own drying-rooms, economically independent of macaroni-mad Italy...
NAKED TRUTH-Clare Sheridan-Harpers ($5.00). Notorious Clare Sheridan has done some more autobiography, and has given it a title which implies all that a gossip-loving public has long been led to expect of her. But she lets them down. Chapter after chapter denies the gossip about her trip to Russia with Kamenev (Mme. K.'s jealousy counteracting her husband's hospitality), her visit to Kernel Pasha (another wife's jealousy interfering), her camping trip with Charlie Chaplin (the press descending on the fifth day to claim...