Word: nickelodeons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theory that Indians' being made to bite the dust, three in a row, from a range of a mile and a half, is worth salvaging from the fifteen-minute parodies on the nickelodeon days and brought back to feature-length standing, "The Texas Rangers" sets out to curdle the blood in the grand old style. Free from this now-fangled nonsense about Indians' being human beings, at least four of the reels are devoted to shots of the atrocious savages' being shot down in fabulous quantities by plucky little bands of Rangers. Fred MacMurray is the unblenching avenger who fears...
...recovered from typhus, Attilio became manager and vice president of Bank of Italy's first branch in San Jose, Calif., later ran his brother's first Market Street branch in San Francisco. At once his partiality for the entertainment business showed in small loans to struggling nickelodeon houses...
Eldest of the seven sons of a Russian immigrant who ran a grocery store on Chicago's West Side, Barney Balaban got into cinema in the days of the nickelodeon. His only sister was the wife of Sam Katz. Balaban and Katz were the first theatre owners to cool their patrons in summer with mechanical refrigeration, an innovation presumably inspired by Barney Balaban's early experience in the cold-storage business. They were the first to cut dull shots from newsreels, the first to go in for super-colossal theatres. Balaban & Katz became the biggest theatre-chain...
...from Laupheim, Germany when he was 17. For the next 22 years he struggled manfully in the clothing business at Oshkosh, Wis., managed to save up $2,500, In 1906, when he was 39, encouraged by an advertising man named Robert Cochrane, he opened a Chicago nickelodeon called The White Front. Six months later, he had a string of them and his own film exchange. From 1909 to 1914, Laemmle and his famed Independent Motion Pictures Co. ("IMP") fought the patents company which then threatened to get control of the industry...
Died. Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rotha-felf 53, Manhattan showman who, starting as a nickelodeon operator 28 years ago, introduced superspectacle stage shows to U. S. cinema theatres, carried cinemansion magnificence to fabulous Byzantine heights in his own theatre, The Roxy; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1934 he lost his job as manager of Rockefeller Center's theatres...