Marsh would have been 17 or 18 in that movie. Surprising that none of the many child stars from that era aren’t still living.
Some were when the Dope did this question a decade ago, but all are dead by now.
https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oldest-movie-with-a-living-cast-member/
Indiana state troopers recently wrangled chickens:
The driver, who has yet to be identified, apparently hit a concrete median wall and drove off before officers arrived.
The navigation app Waze, which emphasizes user reports of road hazards, has an option to report animals on the road. I’ve used it, on a freeway in Los Angeles, to report chickens. And, yes, officers and wreckers were out there rounding them up.
The Hershey Creamery Company, which markets ice cream mainly in the Eastern US was founded by a Hershey family in Lancaster, PA , in 1894.
The more well-known Hershey candy company was also founded by a Hershey family in Lancaster , PA in 1894.
They families are not related, and they have waged legal battles over the years over the name “Hershey.” As a result, Hershey’s ice cream must carry the disclaimer “Not Affiliated with Hershey’s Chocolate.”
Cadbury UK would be smart to adopt this disclaimer.
I also recall a news story that Hershey wanted to leave Hershey, PA and relocate elsewhere, but the city passed a law that forbid them from leaving the city.
How could a municipality possibly pass a law like that that would be legally binding? You can’t tell a company that they aren’t allowed to leave.
It’s a bit more nuanced and interesting story than that. Milton Hershey tied up the company in a trust when he died. But back in 2002, the Trust tried to interest other large food companies in buying them out.
Everybody in town and in the state got immediately nervous that a new owner would move the company out of Hershey, a small city which not only loved its reputation but was the major employer in town. Protests were so loud that the state Attorney-General got an temporary injunction blocking the sale to Wrigley’s. (On exactly what grounds I don’t remember.) Finally the Hershey board gave up and voted to nix the sale.
Of course, this being the 21st century, the company eventually moved half the jobs to Mexico and closed the historic plant. It still hasn’t been sold, though.
That makes sense. It was a civil thing based on a trust that probably had arcane language, not a law.
I’m re-reading H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward as my bedtime reading (for the umpteenth time) and I noticed something that hadn’t struck me before. The portrait of Joseph Curwen that Charles Dexter Ward finds in the hose at Olney Court is described as wearing an “Albemarle wig” (but otherwise closely resembling Charles himself). I know about colonial era wigs, but didn’t know what an “Albemarele wig” looked like. So I looked it up.
The first reference that popped up is, at first glance, the most authoritative. The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, by Thomas K. Bullock and Maurise B. Tonkin (1997), which on Project Gutenburg at The Wigmaker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg, by Thomas K. Ford: a Project Gutenberg eBook This source says that
On the other hand, a popular colonial style, the “Albemarle” wig, is not in our catalogue because nothing has been found to tell what it looked like.
Huh. Looking further, I find that most references to “Albemarle wig” seem to be from webpages about The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and they all appear to have found this same source, and agree that nobody knows what it looked like. Somebody sensibly noted that it probably resembled the wig worn bhy the first Earl of Albemarle (whose lifetime coincided with Curwen’s – although that wasn’t a difficult thing to do).
This brings up another question – What did H.P. Lovecraft think that an Albemarle wig looked like? And why?
Is the precise style of the wig relevant to the story?
Of course I had heard of Lovecraft but I didn’t know when he lived. I had to look it up and he was born in 1890 so no where close to the 1st Earl. The 2nd Earl also wore a wig (though not as elaborate as the 1st Earl). By the 3rd Earl wigs had fallen out of fashion. It turns out that the 7th Earl is a great great grandfather of Queen Camilla. The 10th Earl was born in 1965 and is a fashion designer.
I found exactly one reference to “Albemarle Wig” in newspaper archives.
–“Cutlass Empire” by F. Van Wyck Mason (1950)
Apparently long curls.
Not particularly, but he was trying to paint a precise word picture, and evidently either things have changed since he wrote it, or he was wrong.
Looking “Albemarle wig” up on Google N-gram Viewer is interesting. There are virtually no uses between 1800 and today with four exceptions – about 1920-25 (when Lovecraft was writing), 1940-1955 (after he died), 1990-2000, and a BIG jump – by far the largest – after 2000.
Evidently Lovecraft took what was a common term (and possibly a misconception) from his own time and used it, unknowingly triggering a lot of curiosity in the future.
Looking up the term in Google Books, I’m convinced that virtually all the post-1990 entries are due to him, and probably a lot of the earlier ones. One rare, non-Lovecraft use comes from a 1949 pirate novel, Cutlass Empire" by Francis van Wyck Mason p. 282
Albemarle wig swayed two or three times . " What’re ye getting at , Tom ? " It was Colonel Bradley who spoke . " Have those Spanish bastards been kicking up again ? Is that what he’s talking about , Harry ? " Morgan nodded and returned …
All the citations in Google Books point back to a) Lovecraft, b) Cutlass Empire, and c) the wig book that says, “Uh, we don’t know either.” So far as I can tell, that’s it. The spike in the 1980s is due to “Ward” having been reprinted in a number of collections/reissues.
I tried both American and British newspaper databases with no luck, at least for “Albemarle wig” in quotes. Taking off the quotes gives 10,000 hits in Britain, but sorting by relevance still gives nothing useful.
There is an H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society group on Facebook, but nothing there either.
For funsies, though, Deviant Art’s mimsytrove fed the description of the Curwen portrait into AI and got back an eminently reasonable facsimile of a 17th century aristocrat.
Did you try synonyms, such as Albemarle periwig / peruke / perruque?
I did now and absolute no hits for any of those. Nothing useful without quotes either.
Wig was consistently used as far back as 1700, which is where the BND ends. The other words were far less common, even when searched for on their own without Albemarle.
Lovecraft is describing a painting from the 17th or 18th Century.
Oh, well, worth a shot. Thanks for checking.