Tag: Entertainment
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Rochefort Tells How Americans Buy Art Fakes
When I worked for Christie’s Auction House, I was always fascinated when something came through that turned out to be a forgery. I was a photographer for the company, so I worked with a lot of experts in each department, and I tried to learn a bit about how they were able to tell a…
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Rich Men Who Have Organs Built In Their Homes
As mentioned in the article, the “largest and costliest organ in the United States” belonged to Frederick G. Bourne’s and was installed in his Oakdale, Long Island home. According to the Organ Historical Society’s Pipe Organ Database (who knew?) the residence became a military academy after Bourne died, and in 1948 the organ was sold.…
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Is The Moving Picture To Be The Play Of The Future?
In 1911, the motion picture industry was just beginning to boom. Movies were still silent, and black-and-white, but this article predicts how the industry will change once color and sound are added. Is it too much to say that the moving picture is the theatrical show of the future? Yes, if we have got always…
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Babies Who Earn A Man’s Wage And Support Families
You have to admit, they are cute kids. The one on the far left is Marie Borgreve, “who takes posing seriously and, at four years, assumes the dignity of forty.” I think she looks a bit like Kiernan Shipka, who plays Sally Draper on Mad Men. BABIES WHO EARN A MAN’S WAGE AND SUPPORT FAMILIES:…
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When Mark Twain Nearly Changed His Literary Career
Here’s a first person account of Mark Twain’s reaction to a bad review. WHEN MARK TWAIN NEARLY CHANGED HIS LITERARY CAREER: A Disappointment That Incidentally Gave Him a Lifelong Yearning to Kill a Critic. (PDF) From July 30, 1911
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Exporting An Imaginary America To Make Money
According to IMDB, the current record for foreign box office receipts of an American movie belongs to Avatar. But you don’t have to go too far down the list to find a cowboy movie. The tenth highest foreign box office record belongs to Toy Story 3. EXPORTING AN IMAGINARY AMERICA TO MAKE MONEY: Moving Picture…
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Must The Nickel Novel Die Out? It Is In Danger Now
This article is a nice appreciation of the nickel novel (also called the dime novel), which appeared to be on its way out but actually survived another 30 years or so. Not every age produces a Shakespeare, a Dante, a Kipling, or a man destined to have his name written high in large thirty-two candle…
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Business Girls’ Noonday Diversion
Have you heard about the latest craze that all the business girls are doing on their lunchbreak? That’s right, they’re Ballroom Dancing. “Gracious, May, you don’t want any ice cream; we haven’t time.” “Yes, we have. I’ll eat it fast. It’s only 12:30. We can get in two waltzes and a two-step easy.” This is…
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Going Down In A Tube To Hunt For Sunken Treasure
This is one of those great articles where I do a little research and find out even more interesting stuff that happened next. The article is about Charles Williamson, who invented a tube he could use to go treasure hunting on the bottom of the sea. What I learned is that Charles’ son John took…
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The Campaign To Curb The Moving Picture Evil In New York
In 1911, movies were gaining in popularity with all kinds of people. This created situations for grown men and little children to sit side by side in a darkened room, which probably didn’t happen very much before. Surely this is a reason to worry. A report “On the Condition of Moving Picture Shows in New…
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