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An alien, coming into a colony also became, temporarily a subject of the Crown, and acquired rights both within and beyond the colony, and these latter rights could not be affected by the laws of that colony ( Routledge v Low ( 1868 ) LR 3 HL 100 ; 37 LJ Ch 454 ; 18 LT 874 ; 16 WR 1081, HL ; Reid v Maxwell ( 1886 ) 2 TLR 790 ; Falcon v Famous Players Film Co 2 KB 474 ).
Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.
In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Hawks was the Story Editor at Famous Players ( later Paramount Pictures ) almost two years, and occasionally edited such films as Heritage of the Desert.
In 1912, Adolph Zukor had formed Famous Players in Famous Plays – later Famous Players-Lasky and then Paramount Pictures – one of the first American feature film companies.
" Pickford first demanded ( and received ) these powers in 1916, when she was under contract to Adolph Zukor's Famous Players In Famous Plays ( later Paramount ).
Paramount Pictures can trace its beginning to the creation in May 1912 of the Famous Players Film Company.
With partners Daniel Frohman and Charles Frohman he planned to offer feature-length films that would appeal to the middle class by featuring the leading theatrical players of the time ( leading to the slogan " Famous Players in Famous Plays ").
By mid-1913, Famous Players had completed five films, and Zukor was on his way to success.
Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and Famous Players released their films through a start-up company, Paramount Pictures Corporation, organized early that year by a Utah theatre owner, W. W. Hodkinson, who had bought and merged several smaller firms.
Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation.
On September 28, 1916, Zukor maneuvered a three-way merger of his Famous Players, the Lasky Company, and Paramount.
The Foundation has recently acquired ownership of the Famous Players Trademark.
Also, in 2007, Paramount sold another one of its " heritage " units, Famous Music, to Sony / ATV Music Publishing ( best known for publishing many songs by The Beatles, and for being co-owned by Michael Jackson ), ending a nearly-eight-decade run as a division of Paramount, being the studio's music publishing arm since the period when the entire company went by the name " Famous Players.
" An additional legacy unit, Famous Players Theaters ( Canada ) was sold in 2005 to its competitor Cineplex Odeon Corporation.
Famous Players produced four more feature length films over the next 15 months.
During this time Valentino began to contemplate not returning to Famous Players, although Jesse Lasky already had his next picture, The Spanish Cavalier, in preparation.
After speaking with Rambova and his lawyer Arthur Butler Graham, Valentino declared a ' One man Strike ' against Famous Players.
In September 1922, he refused to accept paychecks from Famous Players until the dispute was solved, although he owed them money he had spent to pay off Jean Acker.

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Famous US caver Floyd Collins made in the 1920s important explorations in that area.
Famous for its fine claret, numerous members of European society were made welcome there as guests.
Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).
Valentino made one final movie for Famous Players.
* Famous silent film actor Eddie Quillan made his last television appearance on Matlock in the season 1 episode " The Author " ( 1987 ).
A much shorter animated version of the poem and film was made as an episode of The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, with the ultra-myopic Mister Magoo in the title role.
He made his way back to Oxford and then worked in Bramhall for the Famous Players.
Famous people who visited and lived in Vernon include: Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian Church and Bethany College ; Henry Ward Beecher came to Vernon early in the Civil War and made a plea for Lincoln and the Union at the Courthouse ; and Lord Flanigan, English nobleman, was a one time a citizen of Vernon.
" Famous Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania ", an 1880 illustration of a tarring and feathering | tarred and feathered tax collector being made to riding the rail | ride the rail
Famous for so many pleasant features, Caerleon was made ready for the announced feast.
Nine episodes were completed by Fleischer Studios, with the final eight made by Famous Studios after the reorganization.
At an earlier time in food regulation, when the hot dog was suspect, Handwerker made sure that men wearing surgeon's smocks were seen eating at Nathan's Famous to reassure potential customers.
Rambova claimed that Famous Players made them choose the film.
She has been made a Distinguished Alumna of the University of Alberta and is one of York University's " Famous Fifty " graduates.
Famous for its " supertubes ", probably South Africa's longest and most consistently good wave, it's charged with a surf vibe as relaxed as it is friendly, and this tends to soften the effect of the wealthy set who have made this part of the coast their own.
He has also made an appearance as a lawyer in the Good Charlotte video for " Lifestyles of the Rich And Famous ".
*# Famous, oldest Polish stone sign-post made of local sandstone from quarry in Brzeźno village.
Venues now come in all shapes and sizes, with use being made of every conceivable space from proper theatres ( e. g. Traverse or Bedlam Theatre ), custom-made theatres ( e. g. Music Hall in the Assembly Rooms ), historic castles ( C venues ), to lecture theatres ( Pleasance, George Square Theatre and Sweet ECA ), conference centres, other university rooms and spaces, temporary structures ( The Famous Spiegeltent and the Udderbelly ), churches and church halls, schools, a public toilet, the back of a taxi, and even in the audience's own homes.
Famous individuals such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pope John Paul II have made speeches there.
The first filmed version was made in 1919 by the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation with 17 year old Lila Lee as Mary and Paul Willis as Dickon, but the film is thought lost.
Famous jazz musicians occasionally made guest appearances, such as trumpeter Shorty Rogers in an early episode " The Frog " with Shorty playing flugelhorn as Lola sings " How High the Moon ".
A free documentary was also made called The World's Most Famous Haunted House: A Tribute to Britannia Manor.
Famous potter Aoki Mokubei ( 1767 – 1833 ) made celadons that paid conscious homage to Chinese wares.
Waldman made the transition when Fleischer Studios was foreclosed on by Paramount Pictures and reorganized as Famous Studios in 1942.

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