When William Fox, cinema magnate, magnifies his business, as he again did last week by the purchase of 356 theatres, he enjoys the luxury of reminiscence. Tul-chva, Hungarian village, was his start; the cinema-gorged gulches at Los Angeles his end. On the way was childhood immigration to the U. S.; adult work in Manhattan cutting cloth to cloak & suit patterns for $17 a week; saving of $1,600 and purchase of a Brooklyn ''hole in the wall" for exhibition of what passed for moving pictures in 1904; investment, speculation, expansion as an exhibitor,...
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