Word: warners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lights of New York, first seven-reel all-talkie, is made by Vitaphone (Warner Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back...
...radio. It was a long time to wait for one announcement but he bore up cheerfully. The long sittings made historic a small, thickly upholstered sofa and a ponderous, brindled Great Dane named Jefferson, whom the Governor addressed now and then to ease his mind. Mrs. Emily Smith Warner (eldest daughter) and her husband were there, too. Also Walter Smith (youngest son), Mrs. Belle Moskowitz (chief publicist) and her husband; also secretaries, friends, newsgatherers. The Governor chewed long cigars, drank water frequently. His face was redder than usual. His hands moved constantly, though not fidgeting...
...second night, just as the session was opening, the Smith radio went dead. A Klieg light used by camera men had burned out a house fuse. A butler and Son-in-Law Warner made repairs in time to pick up Permanent Chairman Robinson as he said that the roll of States would be called to name candidates for the Presidency...
That afternoon, before breakfasting, Nominee Smith issued copies of his message to the convention (see p. 10). He read the crucial sentences aloud, emphatically. Until evening he dictated answers to congratulations, then went to play with his year-old granddaughter, Mary Adams Warner. His first speech was to be at his political alma mater, oldtime Tammany Hall...
...talkies" are produced on a machine made by the Western Electric Co. William Fox's talkies bear the trade name of Movietone; those of the Warner Brothers are labeled Vitaphone...