Word: olcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sidney Olcott, 76, pioneer movie director (From the Manger to the Cross), who helped guide film Newcomers Mary Pickford, Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino; in Hollywood...
Handle. In Olcott, N.Y., a Mr. Ten Brook, who was christened in 1876 (the year of the Philadelphia Centennial) for one Judge Hodge (owner of the opera house, manufacturer of gargling oil and supporter of Samuel J. Tilden for President), gave his name as John Hodge Opera House Centennial Gargling Oil Samuel J. Tilden Ten Brook...
...this haunted houseparty that she made her most brilliant capture- Colonel Olcott, cofounder of the Theosophical Society. Honest, credulous Henry Steel Olcott, part-time journalist, a Civil War colonel who had recently been admitted to the New York bar, was the perfect front man. A year later, he had deserted his wife and three sons to devote his time to serving the dynamic Blavatsky...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...Shirley, onetime Army major, formed a "sales engineering" firm with two onetime Navy civilian employes named F. B. Olcott and F. C. Nichols. They engineered war contracts for 46 munitions makers, made $106,196 apiece last year, have piled up $208,211 profits (apiece) this year...