Letters, 1929-1941.

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Letters, 1929-1941.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122553212

The letters are written first from the beginning of his train trip west to Stanford. Later, he describes his work with spectral intensity research. Still later, from Hollywood, he writes of his involvement with The Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences, his work with Ty Cowan (Associate Producer at Columbia Pictures) and Harry Engwight, and discusses the movies being made, much on Edward G. Robinson's work, contracts, and controversy; he gives much news of the studio, its projects, gossip about its people, his work. Particularly interesting is information about his original idea of polling opinion at new movies, bringing in Dr. Gallup to develop the idea, then after his death the family claims Dr. Gallup steals the idea for his own. Also of interest will be the fact of his high intelligence (he was one of Lewis Terman's study group of gifted children) coupled with his suicide and the letters he leaves about it.

.25 linear ft. (225 letters, 11 photographs)

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6760372

Stanford University. Department of Special Collections and University Archives

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Berman, Rita

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Berman, Daniel

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A gifted child who went on to study spectral intensity physics at Stanford, later following friends to Hollywood during its early heyday period. The letters are written to his mother, Rita Berman, founder of Educational Playthings, and his uncle, Harry Scherman, founder of the Little Leather Library and the Book of the Month Club. From the description of Letters, 1929-1941. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553212 ...

Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973

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Cowan, Tynes

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Engwight, Harry.

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Gallup.

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