Peeling Back The Bark
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Mary Pickford Stars in “Beverly Hills 9021-Oh Holy Night”
By James Lewis on December 15, 2016Known as “America’s Sweetheart” during the silent film era, Mary Pickford became one of the most powerful women in the history of Hollywood. By 1916, she was earning $10,000 a week plus half the profits of every film in which she appeared (and there were a lot!). And she was producing the movies she acted…
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President bans Christmas tree from White House!
By James Lewis on December 14, 2016(First published in 2008, this blog posted was updated in 2012 and, after finding the letters to his sisters on the Theodore Roosevelt Center’s website, again in 2016.) There’s a good deal of misinformation about how Theodore Roosevelt refused to allow a Christmas tree in the White House because of “environmental concerns.” A bit of…
