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Show OIL KING IS ..STAGED. ' - ' John D. Rockefeller. Shown as hiero' In "The Almighty Dollar." New York. John D. Kockfeler has been "stuged," not In any uncertain manner and with an alias as InThe Vandcrbllt Cup."'or "Th6 Lion and thu Mouse," hut quite positively oven down to his own nunio. Junies Hnvlland has dono It In his vnudovlllo sketch called "The Almighty Dollar." and Haviland himself plays tho part of tho oil kins. John D. Is shown bowalllng tho fact that ho has to, sneak Into his house: like a thief In tho night, dodging process pro-cess servers. The door bell rings and hp asks sharply, "What's that?" and then soliloquizes, "unother of thoso Idiotic reporters, i suppose, seeking my opinion on tho next presidential compalgn. Fools, fools, fools, It matters mat-ters not who tho man Is or may be, ho is ours, ours body and soul." Then ho gets a noto from a poor doctor who has been stung by the talnfcd money microbe and wnnts a few days moro tlmo on .his $30,000 note. 'Hosh!" scoffs John D, "tho'. same-old same-old story. Moro time, moro time) bus-lness bus-lness Is business, and a business man should not presumo on n friendship," so It goes, hut, though ho Is a hard-headed hard-headed business man, this Rockefeller of tho stago Is mado so kind hearted that ho gives $30,000 for tho rng doll of Llttlo Liz, tho angel waif, who once upon a tlmo pulled his grandchild out of tho ocean at Itpckaway, and nt tlui end Liz says, earnest like: "John D, dem noospupcr guys who's alius knockln' you Is a bunch of stiffs. U nlnt got a hair on do top of 'yer nut, but I lovo yer I lovo yor llko h 11." |