Show IA A DEADLY PARALLEL PARALLE L there is a deadly parallel of movie movie history to in ladio today As in any new industry the get rich quick Walling Wallin fords ale aie doin doing e their j tuff and the grist of suckers to mr prediction never run out in the early movie days fortunes fortunee were made over night the butcher and the baker and the candlestick candle stick maker pooled their haid money and rented a store room A few chairs a sheet and a projecting loom fitted out the int interior elior and a gaudy box office beckoned to the passerby A movie camera a few actors and the stage was set for a stock selling campaign the dividends were promised in glowing voids and the beautifully engraved stock certificates could not b be e resisted but tile dividends came not someone saw to that the leather lung promoter looms large lare again radio is enjoying a heavy emigration aloni the land of cloak and suit the easy money gentry has headd of the soft road to bough dough ville all that is necessary is to take some twisted wile knobs some transformers a condenser and a couple of what and put dut them in a box and shake well before showing behold there is a new radio set bom the stock salesman will vill tell you its a world v orld beater its the very thing the has been longing for because it be found but here it is at last your savings invested in this marvelous marv clous thing will fix you for life and it will tho the first time one of those freta freh boys wants to make mak some money for you just le member that the radio 11 companies which have been in business for a dozen years or so are arc not peddling any nice fresh stock if there are any dividends to be made they will be pocketed by the men on the ground floor looks like it ought to be a hard year for this type of pio moter |