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...Chancy gets his man. The Singing Fool (Jolson): Mammy on the vitaphone. Kriemhild's Revenge: Sequel to Siegfried, last of the great German pictures. Three Comrades and one Invention: Russian comedy. ''Lonesome": Telephone girl's holiday done in the same style as The Crowd. (B) Our Dancing Daughters ($90,000???Capitol, Manhattan); The Singing Fool ($53.000?McVickers, Chicago); Mother Knows Best ($8,000???Carthay Circle. Los Angeles); Excess Baggage ($14,000 Loew's, Toronto...
...libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid the highest price?$28,000???that was offered for any single item. This secured them a bust of Madame de Wailly, wife of Charles de Wailly, court architect to the last king of France. A lady with long thick curls, a sullen mouth and a thick nose, her oblique but unmistakable disdain was not softened...
John R. Leighty, an engineer representing the American Railway Association, declared that the change would cost the railroads $332,835,000???$100,000,000 for changing tariffs, $15,000,000 for changing standard plans, $216,000,000 for new tools and machinery, $1,835,000 for relocating 262,500 mileposts...
...under, Munsey started Munsey's Magazine. That too was a failure until, in the nick of time, he cut the price of it (a monthly) to 10¢, and that started something in U. S. journalism. A few more years of the mad wheel and his income was $700,000???all this before the grocery episode, all this from the writing and publishing "game." Of his Maine boyhood he said...
...struggle, and now the earth was mine?rich at last, richer than I had ever dreamed of being?$1,000 a week net, and every week adding to it by leaps and bounds?$50,000 a year and all mine?next year $60,000, then $70,000 and $100,000???$1,000,000, maybe?great heavens, and it was real...