Word: nickelodeons
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Streets of New York (Monogram). Among the studios great & small which turn out small-budget pictures for the nickelodeon trade, little Monogram is a knowing specialist. Its Westerns and other staples, as unpretentious as a stripped jalopy, rattle as steadily to market. Not geared for fast boulevard traffic, they are towed into it occasionally in a double feature, rarely attempt the invasion on their own power...
...whimsical, greying man of 44, Philadelphia-born Frank Jeremiah Black can look back through his heavy horn-rimmed cheaters on 25 adventurous years in music As a boy he played the piano in a nickelodeon. University of Pennsylvania turned him out a chemist, but piano-pounding in a Harrisburg hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under...
...Beverly Hills, Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 71, onetime Chicago nickelodeon proprietor and retired head of Universal Pictures Corp., set about trying to interest U. S. can manufacturers in his patent on self-heating hot dogs on a royalty basis. Demonstrated to the press at a buffet preview last fortnight, the hot dogs are packed in cans invented by a German-Jewish refugee named Leo Katz, whom Mr. Laemmle picked up in Zurich last year. At one end of each can is a compartment containing chemicals. When the compartment is punctured, contact with air makes the chemicals hot enough...
...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...