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...shoe is a commodity. So is a motion picture, a vaudeville act, a radio program. A man who has sold shoes should be able to sell cinemas, acts, broadcastings. So thinks the recently formed Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, Oct. 15), so thinks Hiram Staunton Brown, its new president...
During photophone's development the Keith-Albee vaudeville enterprise was swinging in a great, open parabola. It had only theatres and actors. But it was not a closed corporate entity, such as is currently found most profitable. Then Keith-Albee merged with the Orpheum circuit of vaudeville-cinema houses. That made KAO, which soon had tight alliance with Pathe Exchange (cinema producers) very potent. The eccentric amusement curve was closing toward an ellipse. Joseph P. Kennedy (TIME, May 28) closed it by becoming K-A-O's chairman. He was already chairman of Film Booking Offices, cinema distributors...
...Keith Corp. of the Keith Cos. and Orpheum Circuit Inc. (making a total of 700 theatres...
Last February he also gave an interest in FBO Pictures Corp. to Keith-Albee-Orpheum (K. A. O.), largest amusement enterprise in the world. K. A. O. own 203 theatres, including the Hippodrome, Manhattan, and last year made nearly...
Blair & Co. (Bankers) with the Keith-Albee-Orpheum organization (vaudeville and cinema houses) control the Pathe Exchange; which controls the Pathe News Reel, Cecil B. DeMille Pictures, Producers Distributing Corp., Metropolitan Pictures (Christie features), Producers International Corp. To this list of subsidiaries was added last week the Film Booking Office (FBO), largest non-theatre-owning producers & distributors of cinemas (60 annually...