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...Though the New Deal is one large and grand philanthropic organization, you Mr. Phillips are the original "forgotten man." You might apply to Jesse for a loan, if and when his bank makes 'em; you might call on the New Deal if you have a gold contract to abrogate; or an airmail contract that needed cancelling; or if you are a professor; or you could probably get first-hand information for a divorce; but when the New Deal thinks of you as a "speculator"?in the words of Joe Penner, "you nasty citizen...
...decision the union declared that the company was not fulfilling the settlement terms, made additional new demands, threatening a strike if they were not granted in 48 hours. The company offered to go before Judge Sullivan and abide by his decision if it had not lived up to its contract, but refused to listen to new demands...
...failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...
Madge Evans now has a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An expert badminton player, she owns the largest collection of pajamas in Hollywood, prefers to sleep in a nightgown. Unmarried, she lives in a ten-room Spanish house with her mother and brother, likes practical jokes, plays golf constantly and poorly, is often seen with Tom Gallery, matchmaker for Hollywood's Legion Stadium. Healthy, talkative, blue-eyed, she studies in bed, considers The Little Duchess (1917) her best picture...
...Ontario's Attorney-General Arthur Wentworth Roebuck: ''There is no law which would permit us to deal adequately with the American gentlemen attempting to exploit the children. So we must be satisfied with circumventing their scheme. Promoters may take whatever action they please to enforce their contract to exhibit the children in Chicago. But if they get the children out of the hands of these guardians, they will be a good deal more skillful than they have been in the past...