Word: virtues
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seats, lounge rooms, the music room for people waiting to be seated in the theatre. The rug is lighted so that latecomers can find a softly glowing path to their seats in a darkened theatre. But large further sums were spent on such bric-a- brackery, such articles of virtu, as 37 bronze-labeled stones from foreign countries in the "Hall of Nations." This hall also contains a bronze bas-relief of Thomas A. Edison, who presented the first practical cinema reel (1894), scenes of prize fights, fencing matches, dances and vaudeville skits. Inventor Edison was so intent on maintaining...