SEES MORE PIX THAN ANY PREZ
Thus did Variety, periodical of the show business, last week headline a new collection of basic statistics: In eleven months Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 83 feature cinemas, 73 "short subjects" and 500 reels of news. The total (1,327) was four times as many as seen by Herbert Hoover, five times as many as by Calvin Coolidge. 18% more than the estimated average mean consumption of "rabid type" cinemaddicts in a similar period. Two pictures President Roosevelt had exhibited twice at the White House: The Fighting President, a...
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