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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cotton industry. He patented his machine and, in partnership with Edward Drummond Libbey, started making bottles in a one-story frame building in Toledo, Ohio. Since they had patents on the only bottle-making machine in existence, they prospered. The Owens Bottle Co. of Toledo, has long been the largest bottle manufacturer in the world. Its absorption of the Illinois Glass Co. last spring further underlined its importance. From its 17 factories pours every conceivable kind of bottle, from one-tenth ounce perfume containers to freaks of 13-gallon capacity. Some 2,000,000 nursing bottles are produced each month...
However poor Fox Theatres may appear to some people on a strictly investment basis, the greatest asset the company has, and one that should appeal to Fox patrons, is the management of William Fox.* Famed are the legends of his rise from Hungarian Jew newsboy to Long Island tycoon. Most significant of the factors in his story is that the Fox accomplishment has been singlehanded. Blustering, driving, he makes his own decisions, rapidly follows them out. Scorning most social customs, he enjoys golf despite a Kaiser-like arm, has thrice holed...
...Film Corp. carries approximately $5,000,000 insurance on the life of William Fox. Last summer insurance men breathed fast when William Fox's motor, with William Fox inside, crashed on Long Island. (TIME...
Jenny. So long as Jane Cowl appears delightfully arch, points her wit with her own sly, luscious laughter and plays the scales with her throaty voice, she will receive plenty of homage. But many of her admirers who see her in Jenny will wonder why so subtle and personable an actress permits herself to appear in such a stale, superficial play. Co-Playwrights Margaret Ayer Barnes and Edward Sheldon have pictured John R. Weatherby, a corporation lawyer who has pampered his family until they are all incorrigible. His wife's senile intimacies with a Russian prince and a willowy...
...Friend the King. William Faversham is a vestige of that genial era, not long past, when certain actors with favorable features had but to smile manfully, lift their eyebrows and bring down the house. These popular fellows appeared in mellow legends which were just militaristic enough to permit them to wear epaulets, but not belligerent enough to ruffle their hair. One of the playwrights who devised their handsome parades is A. E. Thomas. Actor Faversham and Playwright Thomas are now responsible for this play about a King who retained his throne through the clever beneficence of a U. S. dowager...