Word: contract
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Wanda Mansfield (now under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) and Barbara Stanwyck (who is now being sued for breach of contract by Columbia), Mae Clarke was once a dancer at the Manhattan Everglades Club. A table for three in Manhattan's Tavern restaurant was reserved for them daily. Cinemactress Clarke left the Everglades after a short appearance in The Noose to act in vaudeville. She married and divorced Vaudevillian Lew Brice, went to Hollywood two years ago. She lives with & supports her family which had financial difficulties when her father, a motion picture theatre organist, lost...
...Fred Carno's London comedy company. When Mack Sennett saw Charlie Chaplin and Chaplin left the company to go into cinema, Laurel considered him "a fool for leaving." In 1917, playing a vaudeville engagement in Los Angeles, Stanley Laurel met Chaplin again, was persuaded to try a movie contract himself...
...became a cinemactress. She likes giving dinner parties, driving the three airplanes which belong to her husband, Cowboy-Actor Hoot Gibson. Like James Dunn, who used to be a sales man of portable lunch wagons, played a small part in Sweet Adeline, and has a clause in his contract saying he must weigh less than 157 Ibs., she is likely, on the strength of her performance in Bad Girl, to be a star in her next picture...
...outside pressure has been brought to bear upon the Columbia Broadcasting System by a few bigots whose minority organization figures to bulldoze the people of America and who now hope to tamper with free speech? . . . The fact still remains that they will not accept my money or my contract. . . ." Father Coughlin announced that he would continue to broadcast from Detroit over an independent hookup, thus far comprising eleven stations...
...advising "owners of stud dogs or brood bitches, furnishing stud services or leasing, as the case may be, for the consideration of a puppy, as either a stud fee or a leasing fee, to have such agreements placed in the form of a written contract, so that there can be no possible misunderstanding after the whelping. In fact, it is advisable to have all business transactions relating to dogs placed in writing for the mutual protection of all concerned...