The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-10
FROM NEWSBOY TO MAGNATE IS
 LOEW'S RECORD
Cinema King Grasped Op- portunity After Many
 Failures

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.--Any lad might do worse than to consider the career of Marcus Loew (pronounced L-o-w and not L-ow-e-e, by the way).
 Chances are that no spinner of yarns for -Horatio Alger, G. A. Henty or any of the rest of them-ever sue ceeded through the magic medium of fiction in crowding any more achieve ment into. any imaginary characters s life than Marcus Loew wrote into his own by his, hard work, far-sightedness and will to get ahead.
 Shooting Indians may be thrilling to the youthful mind, but it's an open question whether shooting millions isn't about as nerve-wrecking. Mir. Loew has spent his time shooting the latter. And as result he probably hasn't had any more difficulty paying the rent than the most noble Indian collector of them all.
 Mfr. Loew makes lem, he sells lem and he shows 'em.
 And (again) if the only fact neces- sary to make Mir. Loew's career of more interest to the average lad--or the average grown-up, for that matter lis that he either was a farmers boy or newsboy when he started out, why write it down and remember it, that he was newsboy.
 Bought First Ticket
 Mir. Loew got his first slant of a theatre at the age of seven. He saved his money till he had ten cents, and then he bought a seat in the peanut gallery otsthe old National theatre. He didISH actually begin his career of collecting theatres until a couple of years later, however, when at the age of nine he became newsboy. It's doubtful If Mir. Loew himself, knew that he had actively embarked upon the task of being the greatest theatre collector of his day. But he had. He had begun collecting the necessary cap ital anyhow.
 After a short period as a newspaper distributor, the youthful Loew joined up with a map printing outfit. His remuneration from this connection was 35 cents a day. There was a strike for 5 cents more a day. LOew went in for it more or less heartily. That's how, at the age of ten, our busi- ness man found himself without any job at all.
 The next venture toward coralling theatres and motion picture industries and things like that made by MT. Loew was the launching of the East Side Advertiser. Of this newspaper Mir. Eoew was. editor, manager, reporting staff, circulation department, collector, advertising staff, and whatnot. He and his partner made $20 a week, a huge sum in those days. The partners wife, it appears, could not quite stand for the spectacle of Mir. Loew making $20 a week. It looked absurd, not to say ridiculous and unnatural to her. So there was a bit of argument; and Mir. Loew ceased being all those things mentioned above and concentrated on being an errand boy in a shop in Grand street-which was then as now the Fifth avenue of the east side, not to mention the grand boulevard and the center of the social life of that far famed neighborhood.
 MT. Loew steadily progressed to the age of 23, trying out the profession of messenger boy, weaver and salesman on the way and finding himself at that time the possessor of a few hun dred dollars of (hard earned, of course, savings.) And that isn't mentioning a beautiful wife who had agreed to share Mir. Loew's luck
 Unfortunate Venture
 A business venture of which little need be said here, except that it was extremely unfortunate and left Mir. Loew with nothing except seven dollars