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...Singing Fool Jolson is Al Stone, a singing waiter at an inferior nightclub, who is daft over a revue-girl (Josephine Dunn). He writes a song, sings it to the revue-girl, is heard by one Marcus (Edward Martindel), a theatrical shogun. Shogun Marcus, impressed, wants Al to write more songs, gives Molly, the revue-girl, a break. Four years later Al & Molly are Broadway pets, but Al loses Molly, who becomes infatuated with John Perry (Reed Howes). There is a three-year-old child called Sonny Boy (David Lee), who escapes artificiality so completely that a hypersensitive cinemaddict feels...
Miner Clark was the first to discover the Butte copper veins. The first to develop them on a large scale was blatant, uncouth Marcus Daly. In 1879, a reduction plant was erected near Butte, saving the 400-mile overland haul. The next year, Irishman Daly began to make Butte roar. His men probed the earth night and day. Smoke poured out from 100 furnaces. Lumberjacks hacked down whole forests for timber to hold up excavations and tunnels...
...could thumb his nose at Marcus Daly. Perhaps in triumph, he went to Manhattan and built himself a house, in the tradition of Butte ugliness. It cost $7,000,000. It held: 130 rooms, 21 bathrooms, a furnace burning 17 tons of coal daily, 5 organs, 1 Turkish bath, a hideous tower, dining rooms on all floors, 4 picture galleries including the best and worst art of all periods. Within this pretentious tomb, Miner Clark lived quietly with his wife and children. He became a familiar figure in Manhattan, strutting down Fifth Avenue, his white hair waving wildly...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...
...accessible food for workers. Already Corn Products Refining Co. has factories in Beacon and Argo,Ill., and in Kansas City. Dupont Rayon Co. is in Old Hickory, Tenn., and Viscose Co. in Marcus Hook...