Entertainment in 1912

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Ballet, Opera and Symphony. Irrespective of country this was the best entertainment. The most ELITE. Sporting activities were big also like boxing. It all depended on what social position an individual was a part of.

Silent movies were a major part of popular entertainment in 1919 - although, not a great year for memorable movies. The most acclaimed movies of the year were probably D.W. Griffith's romance, "Broken Blossoms", starring Lillian Gish and Cecil B deMille's "Male and Female", starring Gloria Swanson. Comedy shorts starring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle were popular as were westerns starring Tom Mix and the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks.

Roller skating was a major craze in the first quarter of the 20th century and was reaching it's peak around this time - having featured in Chaplin's movie, "The Rink", in 1916. The Coliseum in Chicago opened a skating rink in 1902 with over 7000 people attending on its first night. In 1908, Madison Square Garden in New York became a skating rink, to be followed by hundreds of similar venues in the US and europe.

Sporting events were popular, as always - live, of course. It would be another 3 years or more before the first public radio broadcasts. 1919, however, was the year in which gramophone records first started to become available to a mass market - replacing phonograph cylinders in popularity and starting a shift towards entertainment in the home.