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Show t THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH foster Moifocirtf Arte Choose your new car from the General Motors Line In the past twelve months the public : has purchased 1,086,590 General Motors cars, an unprecedented record. - This great volume of business has made possible still further economies and these have been put into the quality of the 1927 series now on display by Qeneral Motors dealers , W,4 yf Xykwtf .W s?4 V: - ; 7 xr, ? &.' 4 4 "' ' ' f ' ' , f A W. ' , - : ' ' ', ? S ' - w " , v ' I - - '-' . 'x t4(Sw 'V ' J X ' rl --- y" sj v . nti-- f ' "f ' A & ' 3 , i, - S't' J' Y , , i ' ' i Zt&S fc.3j - ' "t v ';, ' v' , leSix, J. - HALLER JAKLON among the arts, haa she wolf to the present role of PUGILISM, and Romulus of the arts the movies and the radio. A prize fight on SL Patrick's day, 1897, nursed back to lieulth the Infant that was to . struggling motion-pictur- e become a giant among the Industries of the world. And a prize fight on July 2, 1921, gave new life and vigor to thnt scientific youngster wireless," and almost overnight put radio broadcasting on an organized basis. The court of public opinion long ago tore the screen from Its low brow foster mother by prohibiting the transportation of fight pictures In Interstate commerce. But the child w;as already strong and no longer required parental aid. How long a careful society will permit the broadcasting of prize fights Is another matter. Thirty years ago the movies were wide open. Nearly anything that would draw spectators could be exhibited. At that time the art was barely sex en jenrs old, but the novelty of living pictures per se was beginning to wane. AH the pictures xv ere short, incoherent things. Little or no attempt had been made to tell a story, and the public, tired of seeing hootch dancers squirm through a couple of hundred feet of Jerky film or the midnight run of the fire fighters, was ready to forget the screen. In the autumn of 195, the freckled Bob Fitzsimmons challenged James J. Corbett to do battle for the worlds heavyweight championship. Enoch J. Rector and Samuel J. Tllden, pioneer film producers, had made arrangements with Corbett, the champion, for the film rights. At first it was planned to stage the bout In Texas, but the promoters got Into difficulties with the law, and the affair was called off. Disgusted, Corbett handed his belt over to Peter Maher. , Rector, with $15,000 of motion picture rights at stake, began to get active, and before long a bout was arranged between Fitzsimmons and Maher to take place In Mexico across the Texas line. The date was set for February 21, 1890. Four ponderous cameras, electrically operated, were at the ringside. But a breath of wind arose In the south with a fresh smell of moisture. The country was purched, rainless for IS burning months. Now rain came. The skies xvere dark, and a slow drls-- . tie set In. Photography was Impossible, but a trainload of fight fans demanded action. The fighters went Into the ring while the cameras stood helplessly hy. Fitzsimmons sparred with Maher for two flashing moments, then knocked hlin through the ropes, and out. This pictorial fiasco emphasized the limitations of the early motion picture equipment. Rector, who had been using Edison cameras, sought an Instrument which could be operated by hand. Before UnS fight funs began to clamor for Corbett to resume and defend the world's championship title which had been knocked out of the ring by Fitzsimmons In the Mexican fizzle. Promoters began to look around for a place In which to hold the fracas, but public opinion and politics barred them everywhere. In desperate Inst resort they went to Nevada and camped, lobbying for a bill through the legislature. By the terms of his agreement Rector was to pay Corbett and his manager, William A. Brady, today known as a theatrical magnate, 25 per cent of the proceeds of the pictures. With Fitzsimmons and his mnnnger, Rector had made an' agreement to hand them. $13,000 when the fighters entered the ring. Hearing of the Corbett percentage deal, Fitzsimmons screnmed that he had been tricked. The whole deni was off. Fltzslmtnons went away to Carsou City, NevH with Rector and the promoters In pursuit Pence was made on a basis which gave Fitzsimmons also a 25 per cent cut of the picture profits. Corbett and Fitzsimmons went Into the ring at Carson City on March 17, 1S97. Rector was at the ringside with three cameras end SS.OOO feet of film, the largest single lot of negative thnt had ever gone out on location. The fight went Its vicious and bloody length, with Mrs. Fitzsimmons cheering her husband to victory. When the fight was over, Rector had exposed ll.tWl foot of film, a worlds record. Rector and his partner, Tllden, were not yet sure of on avenue to the ninrket for their picture, but they finally decided to present It In New York ond market It territorially themselves. A projector wns Insl ailed In the New York Academy of Music In Fourteenth street, where the picture ran through the summer. This was the first film rough-nec- k , rt J1' r '''.i, :, " wV 31 ? , :. i ',' 1 ' yt, v m 'j '" . - ', - It is a complete line It includes 59 models of open and closed types, rang- - V ?'" :rk& from $510 ing in to $4,350. Within it you will find the car you want at the price you want to pay. price-at-the-facto- r fhok iyfiUrnalionn.1 Invasion of the famous old Academy, dedicated to the ancient arts, and redolent with the memories of Pietro Brlglonl, Ole Bull, and the names of Max Strakosch and Maurice Grau. From the Academy the pictures were taken to the Park theater In Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Eagle of July 4, 1897, Indulged In a column of editorial excitement beginning: Th mao who would hsvo prodlotod, at on tlmo In our history, that an svsnt of a prior month would bs reproduced before the eyee of a multitude In plcturee that moved like life, and that electricity would move them and light them, would have been avoided as a lunatto or hanged as a wizard. Meanwhile the fight films were appearing all over the country, presented by buyers of territorial rights from Rector A Tllden. The firm of Rector & Tllden with Its fight pictures was the first to encounter one of the evils which Inter beset the picture Industry with devastating piracy. According to Terry Ramsayes A Million and One Nights: The History of the Motion Picture (Simon & Schuster, New York), to which the writer Is Indebted for the film history of this article, Pennsylvania politicians snatched at the agitation of the W. C. T. U. as a pretext for a spectul legislative bill to prohibit the showing of the fight films. Word presently was passed around that the bill would be permitted to die In committee If a certain exhibitor in Philadelphia were to get the picture. The gross sales on the fight amounted to $150,000, giving each of the participants in the profits about $00,000 each. The gate receipts at Carson City, a record for their time, were only $22,000, or less than a .tenth of the picture takings. No other picture had ever approached such a figure. Here was a prophetic event," Mr. Ramsaye millions says, a prophecy of the motion-pictur- e which were yet to come. But It was uninterpreted and unheeded. The camera was still merely a reporter. It took what happened and passed It on. The conception of having things happen specifically for the camera in terms of the great film spectacles of today was beyond the scope of picture makers Imaginations then. The only thing which fight pictures suggested was more fight pictures. One marked effect of the picture as the outstanding screen production of Its day was to bring the odium of pugilism upon the screen all across Puritan America. Until that picture appeared the social status of the screen had been uncertain. It now became an entertainment of the definitely great unwashed commonalty. This likewise made It a mark for upllfters, moralists, reformers and legislators In a degree which never would have obtained If the screen had by specialization reached higher social strata." The scene changes from Carson City, Nev., to Jersey City, N. J. It Is July 2, 1921, 24 years later. Jack Dempsey, world's heavyweight champion, and Georges Carpentter, French challenger, are socking each other In the arena at Boyle's Thirty Acres. Standing at the ringside Is a man who carefully watches every movement of the fighters, at the same time talking Into a tin can. And as the men swat or clinch or stall, the observer puts their action Into words. From Maine to Maryland fight fans hundreds of miles away hear these words spoken at the ringside. A scientific wonder brings blow by blow news to 300,000 persons, most of whom are hearing radio for the first time. This was the beginning of organized broadcasting, as told by MuJ. J. Andrew White, original Impresario of the air, to the New York Corbett-Fltzstmmo- Corbett-Fltzstmmo- low-bro- Herald-Tribun- Organized broadcasting was founded on the tnltlnl success achieved In putting the Dempsey-Carpentlfight on the air. Or, more accurately, It was that event which precipitated 1L Broad casting would have come along, hut Just when, nobody can soy. But the 300,000 persons who heard broadcasting and liked It forced the Issue. They Immediately wanted radio and radio receivers, end the large electrical concerns cut loose with their resources and brought a new Industry and a new art Into being overnight." As you remember, the movies were drifting In the doldrums of growing public apathy when the Corbett Fitzsimmons film brought new life to the screen. Radio, the sport of a few scattered also was beginning to flop, according to Major White, editor of a radio magazine. nmn-teur- . v &'' ' - y-- " , . r w'x s, . The new General Motors line is first of all a quality line . It embodies every advantage of research. It has been proved at the General Motors Proving Ground. Every car is finished in Duco; the closed cars have Fisher Bodies. ' , ,:.' ''? WV' v - J)emp$ey and CorpentJetj'duJy. l$2t By PROEHL ' ' 8 - A. NV ' s - - ..'!' . - x: ii'HiMWy vv. ' v ;N - Tyl-- . t r;,ii t ,y - 5 W3f y y? vif - . jJ-S- ' ' ' , y. ' ' ' -- ?.?. . ' , ' - - "' A, , M In March, 1921, business In radio was practically at a standstill; the only receiver sales at that time were of very small volume and consisted of parts sold to a few experimenters, and these had fallen off so that advertising patronage for my magazine was practically nil. Something had to be done to move the dealers supplies. The llvest Issue in the public mind at the time was the forthcoming battle of the century between Dempsey and Carpentler, the advance publicity for which was then in full swing. I decided upon hitching my wobbly wagon to that particular ascending star, to drag forth the neglected radio baby, and set It down In the spotlight where public attention would be focused. The whole scheme of broadcasting originated In an office memorandum prepared In 1914, Major White says. This memorandum was prepared In the old Marconi days by David Sarnoff, who since has become vice president and general manager of the Radio Corporation of America, and was submitted for comment and suggestions to Major White, who in addition Jo his jnngazlne work was In charge of Marconi public relations. The World war postponed any action on the broadcasting idea, and the memorandum had to wait until March, 1921. Arrangements were made with Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight, before I broke the news to He fell In with Sarnoff," Major White recalls. the Idea and dug Into an Inactive spot in the budget and produced an appropriation of $2,500 which, I recall, he turned over to me with the strict admonition: But dont you spend more than $1,500, remember My idea was to have the broadcasting received In halls and theaters In cities and towns throughout the Middle Atlantic states. The plan was to have amateurs do the receiving In the appointed auditoriums In their own neighborhoods and make the fight description audible to the audiences gathered together for that sole purpose. Well, first of all, there were practically no loud speakers In existence then Imagine that I Earphone arrangements such as are used by the deaf had to be Improvised Into loud speakers by attaching them to old tin tulip horns which were relics of the early days of the phonograph. Throughout the stretch of many weary weeks this work of organization continued. Lining up the theaters was a herculean job, but finally done. Each day the situation became more com' Funds to carry out the ambitious plicated. project were very sparse, and one of the early snags was a matter of $8,000 demanded to erect towers for the transmitters at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City. This alone was more than five times the actual money I had at my disposal, so something else had to be done. The something else consisted of getting the use of the towers of the Lackawanna railroad at Hoboken, and connecting up the Intervening distance by land wire Finally we had a transmitter and towers and a receiving network. Testing began. Days went by, a week; and we were getting perilously neai July 2, but had been heard only a distance of three or four miles, and then only faintly. The testing had to be done lute at night, for In those days receivers were not selective as they now are, and the harbor was filled with ships whose wireless telegraph messages must not be gummed up by our spoken words. As night after night went by and amateurs all along the eastern seaboard were unable to pick up our tests a deluge of frantic communications swamped my office. By phone, telegraph and special delivery I was Informed that things were getting panicky; posters were up In front of theaters and auditoriums Inviting the public In, and here only a few days off was the fight, and no radio to be heard. Everything smoothed out at the last minute, as everybody knows now, though. The night before the fight the transmitter was heard from Maine to Mar.xlnnd; huggurd and worn from loss of sleep our little group took up places at the ringside and at the transmitter, and at the close of the broiling hot afternoon of .July 2, 1921, re ports were pouring In from all qunrters success I And It was a success way beyond my expectations. An elubornte report system had been and the tabulation showed thnt more than 300,000 people had heard the fight description, practically nil of them had hosed radio for the first time. The dealers' shelves were swept rlcnn of radio parts; an overnight demand had sprung up for thousands of radio receivers; the boom was on." 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