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...penny arcades of upper Broadway, in the gaudy Sixth Avenue Sportland of Schork & Schaffer, in all the dark and smoky dens where New Yorkers drop hundreds of millions of nickels into coin machines and peep shows, the name of William Rabkin is great indeed. A fast-talking Jew of 40 with a passion for invention, William Rabkin gave the world the coin-operated electric digger. This glass-encased device has nervous metal claws on the end of a shaft which is manipulated by a row of dials outside. The shaft hangs over a pile of hard candies. With a little...
...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...
...result of his efforts?Examiners Samuel Stansfield and William F. Gilroy were indicted by a Federal grand jury on two counts: conspiring to defraud the Government, accepting bribes. Also indicted last week were customs brokers and a truckman involved in the conspiracy. Previously indicted, sentenced to Atlanta, were Paul Rabkin and Joseph Y Perelman, onetime Superfine Watch Co. partners, by questioning whom Federal Judge Henry Warren Goddard hopes to arrest more of their associates. Last week he told them: "I don't believe your story. Both of you men have got to unburden yourselves about this entire business...