Thousand Million Dollars in Gross Receipts Hollywood, Jan. 30.
'The motion picture industry is riding the crest of a wave of! prosperity that poured approximate. ly "a thousand' million dollars in gross receipts into the business dur-{ng the past twelve months, it was learned here to-day.
'The industry grossed about $250,- 000,000 more during the past twelvemonth period than in the preceding year, one of the highest figures in film' history, and the best for the past five years.
'The 1995 weekly attendance, learned, totalled 71,000,000, 1933 averaged only' 54,600,000,—United Press.
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