Bisbee daily review., 1914-03-15
Stray b~t Timely Topics
 From New YOrk's News Mart

NEW YORK. March 1i.--The ra- pidity with which some men have accumulated immense fortunes In the moving picture business the past few years makes the day of the gold rush almost tame in comparison. Marcus Loew, the head of the syndicate which took over 200 moving picture and vaudeville theaters at one stroke of the pen the other day. was a fur mer- chant in a small way when he became interested in the movies" scarcely a dozen years ago. Today he is rated many times millionaire and Is by long odds the biggest man in the moving picture business in the en- tire world. The career of one of Mr. Loew's partners in the new syndicate is also Illustrative of the Midas-like touch of the films. Nine years ago this young man was selling peanuts in an amusement park in Chicago.
 This calls to mind the good fortune Of another man who got in on the ground floor in the moving picture business. This man had a little of. flee down in Nassau street. where for many years he had eked out n bare livelihood dealing in magic Ian. terms and slides. Occasionally he made a sale but the most of his work was in the repair line. The motion picture machines. being develop. ment of the magic-lantern in A way naturally attracted his attention. From the newspapers he learned that ! the celluloid films frequently ex. ploded in the machines and endan. gered the lives of the operators and caused panics in the audiences. So the little magic-lantern dealer put on his thinking cap and in a few days he devised simple hood to cover the machine and render the film explo. sions harmless. He patented the de wee and soon was receiving big roy. alties from the motion picture ma. chine manufacturers. With the prof. US thus derived he went into the bus. mess of producing films and now fl IS said he has at times as many as one thousand actors and actresses employed to perform before his cam. eras.
 No woman has been wined and dined with greater frequency by hos. pitable New York than Mrs. Arthur Paget. who is making one of her no. rlodical visits to her native city. If ls now many years since Mrs. Paget married and went to London where she soon became one of the most Don. ular Of the Anglo-Amerlcan hostesses But despite this and her long resi-. dence abroad she has ever kent fin close touch wi.h the friends and asso. cations of her girlhood days in New ferk. As Mary Fiske Stevens. - better known as "Minnie"-she was the leader of The Bouncers;" A set of pretty New York girls of long ago who | were given additional fame by inc clever pen of the late Laurence Oly- phant Her parents. Mir. and Mrs. Paran-Stevens, belonged to the intel. lectual and cultured as we'll as to the very wealthy section of New York so- clety. Mrs. Paran-Stevens had a sa. Ion to which were welcome all the clever foreigners whom business or ! pleasure brought to this city. and her young daughter had many opportuni. ties of seeing members of the great European world of which she was lat. CT to become a component part. l
 | The eyes of all women interested in the game of lawn tennis are now turned toward the Seventh Regiment Armory courts in this city, where the annual tournament for the womens national indoor championships was opened today and will be continued through the coming week. The per lection of the arrangements and he large and representative entry list combine to give promise of one of the most successful tournaments of the kind in some years. The champion. ship titles in both singles and doubles are to be decided. Mis- Marie Wagner. the present champion is 10 defend her title against the most expert of the women racquet wielders Of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington and several other cities.
 Quite the most notable wedding of Lenten season took place this after noon in the Chapel of s.. Bartholo news Church, the contracting par ties being Miss Emily Rogers and Henry Kelly Brent. The bride belongs to one of the oldest New York tami' lies. She is daughter of the hate Mir. and Mrs. Henry Pendleton Rogers land a granddaughter of the late Ma