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in the Greater City and one of these at least, the Crotona, has been regarded as the wonder of theatredom.
Besides owning or controlling a score of dividendpaying theatres, Mr. Fox is the head of a big film renting concern, to perpetuate the influence of which he has been involved in endless litigation with the socalled "picture trust." In 1913, Mr. Fox entered the producing field of pictures by establishing "The Box Office Attractions" Company, one of the largest film organizations in the country, thus enabling the enterprising Fox to supply not only his own theatres with compelling film productions, but the company is impregnably intrenched with exchanges and affiliations of the kind the modern film magnate must needs possess.
Tom Moore, not the photoplayer of that name, is known in the show world as the man whose fortune was founded on a song, yet his career as far as I have been permitted to observe it, is but another illustration of the showmanship of a man who saw in the new science a great opportunity, embraced it with serious intent, and achieved in a few years a status for himself best indicated by his present holdings. Besides the Garden, Orpheum and Plaza theatres Mr. Moore owns ten photoplay houses in or near the City of Washington, D. C.
Mr. Moore will be recalled by many readers of this volume as a vaudeville performer who sang his own songs on the Proctor circuit. One of his compositions, "Love, I Dream of You," had a prolonged vogue and brought in royalties exceeding $5,000. This capital he invested in the motion picture field. The first film production to attract him was that remarkable release of a primitive period entitled "The Great Train Rob