William Fox — Who’s Who (1920) 🇺🇸

Fifteen years ago William Fox was in the cloth sponging business. His business acumen brought him one promotion after another and ere long he was proprietor of the establishment. He then ventured into the penny arcade form of amusement and soon found that the business was not what he had expected. Making many improvements over the old style of arcade he was soon rewarded with a lucrative patronage.

Encouraged, he sprung from arcade owner to theatre owner. This was fourteen years ago.

Films were beginning to attract attention then and aside from his other theatrical ventures Mr. Fox began the leasing of films to other theatres in the New York territory. His enterprise gradually branched out until to-day William Fox, self-made film magnate, presides over one of the largest film producing organizations the industry boasts of.

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