Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pointing out that in spite of their great salaries many money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...
...York Stock Exchange, last week, U. S. Rubber climbed steadily from 44½ to 52½. The du Fonts were mentioned. It was no secret that Irenee, Constance, Mary B., A. Felix & Bertha du Pont had become, within the last year, large stockholders of U. S. Rubber. Equally well known was the fact that du Pont-Legate Henry Davis had recently been chosen a director. Accordingly, at the end of the week, President & Chairman Charles B. Seger resigned. To his office was elected F. B. Davis Jr., President of du Pont Viscoloid Co. The change meant that the du Fonts...
Editorially, most metropolitan newspapers supported Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Said the conservative New York Evening Post: "He [Rockefeller] is right. The other position is only a variation of a famous exclamation to make it read, 'principle be damned...
Died. Emil Fuchs,* 62, famed Austrian painter, sculptor and etcher of monarchs and geniuses; by suicide in his Manhattan studio. Artistic conqueror of four cities: Berlin, Rome, London, New York, he sculpted Wilhelm Hohenzollern; painted King Edward VII, Fritz Kreisler, Serge Rachmaninoff, Elbert H. Gary; designed the King Edward VII postage stamp of the British Empire. Recently he acquired internal cancer. He left a note to his sister: "I am already a burden to myself and my surroundings...
...1919?to Paris and the grave of her son; Nov. 1919?to Brazil; Jan. 1922?Antwerp, thence to South Africa; Dec. 1923?World Tour. (New York. Tokyo, Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Naples and home); Dec. 1924?Cuba: May 1925?Italy; Jan. 1926?Yucatan (to study Mayans); Jan. 1927?South America (Bolivia, Montevideo, Argentina, etc.); Jan. 1928? Panama. Salvador, Cuba, Guatemala; Aug. 1928 ?Europe; Jan. 1929?Switzerland...