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...Manhattan, Jacob Cohen, 50-year-old furrier, was caught with a gallon of gin under his counter. Accused of selling liquor, he protested: ''I use it to clean coats," was fined...
...time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business of his own in Chicago. At the World's Fair of 1893 he paid 5¢ to see an elephant switch its tail in the Edison kinetoscope, the first crude moving-picture machine. Author Will Irwin says: "That five-cent piece...
While he had been a furrier Zukor had known another furrier named Marcus Loew and had invested in Loew's subsequent theatre business. The consolidation of Loew's vaudeville houses, solidifying Zukor's investment, had made his fortune, for the time being, secure. He and Loew found that they had common interests. Neither owned enough houses to keep a "feature" busy the whole year. In the new Loew Co. Loew was president and Zukor nominal treasurer. Into it Zukor threw all his cinema theatres except the three he owned with Brady. Zukor said, "I could have cashed in then...
...Bronx (New York City borough) lives a Mrs. Jean Sagerman, furrier's young wife. To her apartment last week came a man. Mrs. Sagerman listened to the man explain that he was a doctor and that her husband had sent him to give her a physical examination. She submitted to it. Said the man: "Your circulation is very poor. I'm afraid you'll have to take an extra hot bath before I can make a thoroughly satisfactory examination." Mrs. Sagerman hid her $1,000 engagement ring and $19.40 under a pillow. When she came from...
...eyes that seem always to be listening, he had the air of an elegant Hebrew comedian about to do a vaudeville turn. It was thus that he appeared before the famed David Warfield on the day that he entered the show business. Mr. Loew was at that time a furrier. He had done well at the trade of transforming the skins of dead beasts into wraps for ladies, and had recently moved from his humble residence on Avenue B, Manhattan, to a more impressive flat on 111th Street. Mr. Warfield also owned a house on 111th Street...