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Samuel Wilson came to Troy from New Hampshire. Brickmaker, distiller, farmer, merchant, meat packer, he waxed rich. Everybody called him Uncle Sam Wilson. When the War of 1812 began one Elbert Anderson got a contract to provision U. S. troops. Anderson arranged with Wilson to secure and pack pork and beef for the army. On the casks and barrels Wilson had written E. A.U. S., meaning from Contractor Anderson to the United States. Visitors saw the containers thus labelled on a wharf for shipment to Newburgh and Greenbush, asked the watchman what the initials stood for. He declared...
Fortnight ago it was rumored that Dr. Frank had asked his potent friend Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago for a job. But he said: "There is absolutely nothing to it. ... I am under indefinite contract here...
...released by Warner last week. With Golfing Actors Richard Barthelmess and Frank Craven, Jones explains how to putt. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will make other sport shorts, including one of track games featuring Frank Wykoff, famed sprinter. To Helen Wills Moody has been offered, it is rumored, a $150,000 contract...
Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell will make a musicomedy containing the first music George ("Rhapsody in Blue") Gershwin has written for the cinema. . . . With 16 blonde, 5 redheaded actresses under contract, Fox has only three brunettes, none of them important: Maureen O'Sullivan, Fifi Dorsay and Sally Eilers. Newsworthy were these precipitations of the conference season that has been raging for the past three weeks in the film industry. Salesmen were exhorted; company officials read numberless addresses carefully prepared by their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were...
...that she was through a fortnight ago when no photograph of her appeared with the other pictures advertising next year's performances. Gossip forthwith spread to the effect that she had been ousted because Mrs. Insull does not like her, has long urged President Insull to end her contract. A year ago, the report went out, Mary Garden said she would not renew her contract and President Insull was glad to take her at her word, particularly after the expensive production of Hamilton Forrest's Camille (TIME, Dec. 15) turned out a failure. Already vacationing on the Riviera...