"Dr. Lee, thank you for the gift. Hopefully we can meet in Germany next time. Sommerfeld said sincerely.

"Mr. Sommerfeld, I think there will be a chance." Li Kangping said expectantly.

"Dr. Li, I am once again grateful for your outstanding contributions to the theory of space quantization. At the same time, I admit that there are still areas for improvement in the system that Mr. Bohr and I founded. In any case, if there is anything you need my help with in the future, please feel free to ask. ”

Sommerfeld ended his trip to the United States, and he would bring gifts to his wife.

Li Kangping sent off his academic friend Sophie and ushered in his girlfriend Sophie.

All the newest and most beautifully designed cars are on Fifth Avenue, and the Plaza Hotel stands in front of it with an unusually white appearance. Li Kangping and Sophie walked together, chatted casually, and enjoyed the fresh air like a song in spring.

"Kangping, you see, what a beautiful twilight, it really makes me very happy to be in this city at this moment." Sophie said happily.

"Sophie, how did you talk to the producer?" Li Kangping asked with concern.

"It's a big deal!" Sophie spun, her elongated shadow reflecting on the floor of the square.

"Are you still so happy after the conversation collapsed?"

"Because I met you today, and we're going to watch the show together."

Subsequently, the two went to the theater. In the theater, Li Kangping and Sophie sought each other's hands, held them, and tenderly exerted force and responded in the long darkness.

The performances of the theatrical actors are very exciting, and the actors rely on their performances to survive.

An actor who has no drama to play, of course, has no income.

Li Kangping and Sophie established a relationship, and the relationship quickly heated up.

They have each other, but they also have their own freedom.

Li Kangping didn't ask Sophie how to live if she didn't have a drama to act, and Sophie didn't ask how much money Li Kangping made every month.

Li Kangping thought Alice Blue's Napoleonic hat was extremely exquisite, and Sophie thought so too.

So Li Kangping bought Alice Blue's Napoleon hat and a stiff dress to match the hat.

Sophie undresses in her rented apartment on fifty streets, then puts on the new clothes her boyfriend gave her, and then undresses again.

"I'm your lover, I'm forever lover, I hate the title 'wife', I won't be anyone's wife, never. Come, Kangping, sleep in my arms. ”

Sleeping in Sophie's arms is sweet, but it's also hard. Li Kangping had to slide one hand under her shoulders and fix both hands beside her to accommodate her ultra-relaxed sleeping position. Half an hour later, Sophie fell asleep, and Li Kangping's hands were numb.

Li Kangping's girlfriend got up early? It's because she sleeps well.

Li Kangping got out of bed gently? Take a closer look at Sophie's apartment.

Her apartment is smaller than the one Li Kangping rented on Chenbian Street, but the rent is higher.

Li Kangping found a copy of "List of American Film Companies" in the living room? Then I flipped through it.

Paramount.

Global.

KBK。

……

At this time, there was no such thing as a "Hollywood Big Eight".

Film studios such as Warner Bros. and Disney are all small companies that have just been established.

MGM only has "rice" and "high", and has not yet added "plum".

KBK is also a small company that only shoots short films, and it is the predecessor of Columbia Pictures.

Objectively? On the valuation of the enterprise - the price of the mortgage to the bank, at this time MGM's "May" + Disney + KBK is about equal to half of Hera Mahjong Company.

It's always Sophie who gets up first? She made a chicken salad and fried two eggs with lemonade.

"Kangping, it's time to get up!"

Sophie pounced on Li Kangping energetically? She rolls from one side of the bed to the other? After returning to the ground, he pulled his boyfriend up hard.

"Sophie, you said you didn't want to be a wife, but you behaved like a virtuous and gentle wife." Li Kangping sat down at the table and tasted the simple breakfast made by his girlfriend.

"Lover, I emphasize the lover again? I am your eternal lover, and you are also my eternal lover. Sophie said seriously.

Li Kangping took a sip of lemonade? Casually asked, "Which company's producer did you talk to last Sunday?" ”

"Small company, called KBK." Sophie said indifferently? She didn't seem to take it to heart.

"You have a copy of the "American Film Company Directory" in your living room, and I flipped through it? Happened to see this KBK company. Their creators were H. Cohen, J. Cohen, J. Brant? Take the surnames of three people? That's why it's called KBK. ”

"Uh-huh, it seems like this."

"So Sophie, what kind of disagreement did you and KBK have not reached?"

"They only make short films of a few minutes, ten minutes, and oh, is that a movie? I couldn't tell a whole story in such a short time, and I couldn't fully use my acting talents. ”

"I see, I see."

"Well, even if I wronged myself to make their short films, they were paid too little, and it was a bad attitude towards slaves."

Sophie devalues KBK for nothing, and in her opinion, sooner or later, a small company like KBK will go bankrupt, three months, six months, and at most a year.

After eating breakfast, Li Kangping said, "Let's go to a movie together later, Tita Barra, Pearl White, or Griffith." ”

"I love Griffith's films, every time I watch his films, I cry, then laugh, and then continue to cry, laugh and cry, cry and laugh, like a fool, like a madman, like a crazy fool."

"Sophie, it seems that you do like Director Griffith."

"I like him, but he doesn't like me, a big director like him has never heard my name at all."

"Sophie, one day, he's going to take a fancy to your acting talent."

Li Kangping and Sophie went out on the street together, went downstairs, and walked a few minutes to a movie theater.

Sophie is, after all, an insider in the film industry, and she knows everything about the industry.

For example, KBK, the full name of the company is KBK Film Sales Company, they make movies, but they don't have theaters, they sell their films to large companies that own theaters, and their films are either bought out by large companies, or a little of the box office revenue, and it is difficult for the company to survive.

There are a large number of small companies like KBK in the American film industry, and small companies can't live long, so in the end, only the "Hollywood Big Eight" are left.

Big directors like Griffiths own a stake in Paramount, and he makes films for his company. Paramount was a large corporation at this time, operating several movie theaters in Manhattan.

Li Kangping and Sophie sat in Paramount's screening room, watching Griffith's classic old film "Withered Flowers".

The film is still a silent film.

And sound movies, in fact, have been born.