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...called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
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...Crane, Mo., mourners held up a funeral procession when they saw beads of sweat on the unembalmed corpse's forehead. A physician applied restoratives vainly, finally pronounced Mrs. Archie Dunnegan dead a second time. The funeral continued...
...Paramount put him on contract, recently made him a star. At parties he does imitations of Maurice Chevalier and Al Jolson. He is parsimonious, reads hardly anything, drives a Ford, is afraid of cross-eyed people and hearses. In Hollywood he walks around in corduroy pants, a sweat shirt, house slippers...
Chamber and Senate last week passed legislation to increase duties by weight instead of ad valorem on imported motor cars (TIME, April 21). The Chamber later carried a Government motion waiving the usual six-week Easter recess, compelling Parliament to sit and sweat over a complex social insurance bill already debated to distraction...