Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with making pictures to be exhibited, an industry which had developed from Edison's kinetoscope to a small, tight trust consisting of ten producing companies. Zukor, looking for new attractions for his houses, had been thinking of production when he wrote the slogan that afterward became the name of his company?the Famous Players. Gambling all his money on his belief that there would be profits in advertising cinema actors like "legit" actors, he fought to break the trust. While his wife sold her jewels and friends loaned their savings, he moved into a new apartment, bought an automobile, rented...
From Mr. Irwin's report of what happened after that, you learn that Mary Pickford's girlhood ambition was to earn $20.000 a year before she was 20, that Samuel Goldwyn's real name is Goldfish, that David Wark Griffith was once a reporter, Cecil B. De Mille a writer of vaudeville sketches, and that Playwright Eugene O'Neill's father, James O'Neill, acted in Zukor's first pictures. You learn how Ben Schulberg and Hiram Abrams. after the latter had been discharged by Zukor, organized United Artists; how Douglas Fairbanks, William S. Hart, David Wark Griffith came...
...members of the section of abnormal psychology, or, as some wit flavored minds choose to call us "the abnormal psychologists", are housed in a small frame building of the Boston & Maine period of architecture at No. 19 Beaver Street. Beaver Street? The name is unknown to Cantabrigians; even the taxicab drivers in Harvard Square, with the exception of course of the sapient Nappy, are unacquainted with it. Hence we must state that it is a picturesque thoroughfare which leads off Memorial Drive a block beyond the John W. Weeks Memorial bridge. It is a very pleasant location for an embryonic...
...metaphor at least, that is what the applicants are privileged to do in this trial of their judgment. For, to choose but one from a notable array of the great, has not the one and only Babe Ruth rendered his verdict in just such a test? The name of an equally famous athlete who is rumored to have chosen wrongly has not been as widely circulated; nevertheless his example may serve to comfort any similar unfortunates in today's sweep-stakes. But no loyal son of a college whose team has defeated Yale's in a competitive examination can doubt...
Last night, Mayor Nichols declined to name any of the board members, although he said their decision would be announced tomorrow; neither did he say whether the members were policemen or dramatists. This board may deliver an ultimatum as to certain lines which must be cut before presentation, or it may refuse to allow the play in Boston on any conditions...