| Show RAGS HAGS TO RICHES within a phenomenally phe nominally short space of time moving pictures have blossomed from the initial nickelodeon stage into a towering american industry with annual production costs of million dollars worldwide world wide in ramifications employing persons paying salaries beyond anything ever before known yielding income to many thousands of investors bringing a constant stream of wealth into this country and affording entertainment for some people every week in the 1 united states who has been chiefly responsible fo for r achieving this mod n miracle 1 A handful of wealthy born bom exploiters ers of the people grinding mercenary merc inary merciless capitalists j most of the stalwarts stal warts who built up the motion picture industry were of humble birth limited education and lacked family wealth take for example e xa mple nicholas and joseph schenck they were operating a merry go 0 O round lound before they were attracted by the possibilities bili ties of the fledgling nickelodeon adolph was a in chicago hi cago carl car 1 laemmle La emrole was a thrifty diy daiy goods clerk in a country store saved aved s a little money visited chicago c ag 0 noted crowds patronizing 5 cent picture shows rented a E store I 1 hired chairs from an undertaker I 1 started exhibiting encountered I 1 obstacles galore but fought tenaciously and finally triumphed harry warner and his brothers have earned an enviable reputation for fair dealin dealing all through their rise to the summit do the giants of this industry and other industries that have contributed tri buted powerfully to the enrichment of america and afforded millions of jobs and executive opportunities 1 port unities deserve to be pictured as public enemies meriting nothing but hatred B C forber nation I 1 ally known business writer |
