Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rabkin is president and owner of International Mutoscope Reel Co., Inc. The company was founded in 1895 to make peep shows of girls going to bed, the cook kissing the policeman and little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph...
...cherries, they keep at a safe distance from the sleazy arcades. They sell pin games to the wholesaler. The wholesaler sells them to the operator for $40 or $50. The operator takes a machine around to cafes, smoke shops, arcades, where he installs it with the permission of the owner, known as the "location" man. The operator and location man split 50-50 or 60-40 on the proceeds during the life of a machine. A good machine may last six months. After that it loses its popularity, and the professionals begin to get on to it. The operator carts...
...Director Ambrose Lansing sat down to write his report, it occurred to him that the figures were once part of a mechanical toy. He built a model to show that if the three images kept in Cairo had been mounted on a flat piece of ivory by their original owner, a string looping their spool-like bases would have made them do an about-face or a full pirouette in unison. Carved with great delicacy, the four figures had an animation of posture and facial expression which moved Dr. Lansing to pronounce them unique in Egyptian art. Furthermore he thought...
Died. Mrs. Zoe Dana Underbill, 87, daughter of the late, great Charles Anderson Dana, onetime owner & editor of the New York Sun. Born on Brook Farm. Mass., in whose famed Socialist-Utopian experiment her father was a prime mover, she was its last surviving member...
...bags not entirely empty. Many and various were the items obtained while scavenging in the College dormitories, ranging from a butterfly not with which the donor used to catch flies for a chameleon he once bought at the circus, to a bottle half full of rum which the owner forced upon the embarrassed collector with the pious hope that it might do some one more good than...