Word: metro
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...reason for the shut-down was stated to be the abnormal present costs of production, due to excessive salaries paid to " film stars" and directors. According to Marcus Loew, head of Metro Pictures Corporation and of the Loew Theatre Circuit, this step is only a beginning of a general deflation of the cinema business; he added: " The cost of making pictures has got away from...