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...long-haired Bernarr Macfaddcn founded the Graphic, hired Writer Winchell on a seven-year contract as columnist, dramatic critic. Starting salary: $100 a week, all of which he earned by night...
...because of the amazing liberty I enjoyed, but I became unhappy because of a double cross about money." This year, he said, the Graphic promised him $300 a week, 50% of syndicate receipts. Neither the $300 nor all the 50% forthcame, Winchell related. But in his desk was a contract with the Hearst organization for a weekly salary of $500 plus 50% of the syndicated receipts. Last week, the Hearst contract was sold to Publisher A. J. Kobler, of the Mirror, which, such sheets as Variety suspect, still belongs to William Randolph Hearst...
...week and chapel on Sundays, they will learn quite a lot about fly-and bait-casting. For last week that famed itinerant casting-expert "Smiling Bill" Vogt said definitely that during July & August he would show St. John's cadets how he works. He has signed a performance contract with Col. Roy Felton Farrand, St. John's graduate and president.* "Smiling Bill" Vogt is a hulky six-footer with a tongue glib to romanticize about the outdoors. Years ago he used to fish a lot and yarn a lot. Now he fishes for spells and lectures for hours...
...deep, mournful voice, telling her they liked the way she sang. One night she ran away from home leaving a letter informing her father that she would never come back until she was famous. She plugged black-face songs in movie houses until, in 1907, she got a vaudeville contract at $12.50 a week. One day when she was in burlesque her trunk didn't come and she had to sing without her blackamoor makeup. Her comedy went over better...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...