1900

• To Have and to Hold, by Mary Johnston, and Eben Holden by Irving Bacheller are the best-sellers of 1900.
• The approval of the New York City audience has become the standard by which theater professionals measure their work—the rest of the nation is merely "the Road." More than five hundred New York shows go on the road in 1900.
• Theatre Magazine, edited by Arthur Hornblow, begins publication.
• The novelty of the "moving picture" phenomenon of the 1890s has worn off. The public is bored with the uninspired menu of news events, sight gags, panoramas, and camera tricks.
• Eastman Kodak introduces the Brownie Box camera at one dollar; Americans embrace the new hobby of amateur photography.
• The trademark and painting His Master's Voice first appears on record labels of the firm that later becomes the Victor Company.
• Brothers James Weldon and J....