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...traveling about the U. S., enjoying the cinema in his private theatre. He rented or bought every famed film, including the banned "Fatty" Arbuckle ones. When President Coolidge was summering at Swampscott in 1925, friends of Mr. Phillips suggested he invite the President to his cinema exhibitions. Said he: "Nup, it's a private show!" He was a bachelor; for 40 years no woman crossed the threshold of his home. There is a story that once he loved the daughter of a Salem shipowner. She refused him, but later hinted that she had changed her mind. Said...