Word: nickelodeons
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...started at the bottom of nowhere with his brother Andrew (who died in 1940). Immigrants from Greece 40 years ago, the brothers worked at odd jobs until they had saved up $300, then started a restaurant. When they had accumulated $6,000 they sold out and bought a Chicago nickelodeon. On $125,000 in profits, they built Chicago's first "de luxe" movie house, the Woodlawn, in 1917. Two years later they sold the Woodlawn and two smaller theaters to the Balaban & Katz chain...
...four Warner boys-Harry, Jack, Abe and Sam (now dead)-were sons of a Polish immigrant who became an Ohio butcher. About 1905 the brothers got hold of a projection machine and began to pick up a few dollars exhibiting The Great Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa. By 1917 they had their own distributing company. By the mid-'20s they were making $1,000,000 a year on their own pictures, and they controlled two popular stars-John Barrymore and a talented dog named...
...gunpowder. The picture recalls how this born delinquent knocked over a string of banks, a mail train, a harmless elderly couple and two of his associates; and how at last his girl betrayed him to G-men, who shot him down as he walked out of a nickelodeon. Fortunately, this old-fashioned story is told in an old-fashioned way. The result: a tough, tight, tense, tricky little melodrama...
Besides its lectures, publications, traveling shows, and collections of theatrical design, it collects and exhibits outstanding movies from nickelodeon days to The Good Earth, now boasts enough reels for 3,300 hours of continuous projection...
...Skouro-chorion, Greece (meaning: Skourasville). Charlie came to the U.S. first. As a newsboy, dishwasher and bartender, he soon earned enough to send for the others. He settled Spyros into a job as bus boy in St. Louis' Planters' Hotel. They soon saved enough to buy a nickelodeon and a second-hand wrestling mat. They made money running the movie nights and kept fit by wrestling in the mornings. Charlie shucked off persistent film salesmen with the challenge: "I'll rassle you three minutes, and if I don't make you unconscious...