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Soundies is less like the peep shows of the penny arcades than it is like the cinema's onetime musical shorts-an illustrated recording, the first which commercially substitutes sound-on-film for discs...
Since, as one of Chicago's Mills brothers says, "the idea is older than God," the Mills-Roosevelt peep show is not basically patented, will have competition. Ten similar projects are under way, although the big coin-machine makers (Wurlitzer, Rock-Ola, Seeburg) have not declared their intentions...
...supplied from a flashy kitchen with air exhaust, at a cost of 141/2 cents per meal (attention Harvard Dining Halls). Their cells are considerably smaller, but lighter and cleaner than those across Boylston Street. Enterprising fathers can climb on the belltower, where boxing gloves have been seen to peep out of a dark corner...
...honkytonk. I don't mean a carny show where the play is for the sucker. You can't put a show on like that any more. You got to give. So I'm gonna give." Mike is even going to give Elmer "for free" a peep at the Girl in the Goldfish Globe. After that, Mike thinks, Elmer will not mind giving a little something himself...
...idea was not brand-new. It had been tried before in the '90s. But the peep-show flickers of those days were often patchy and scratchy, and the machines usually stalled. Fred Mills was satisfied that his company could lick the machine problem with a neat projector and 18-by-24-inch mirror screen. It could show 16 or 35 mm. shorts to the U. S. cinemillions outside the movie houses, if Hollywood could provide the shorts...