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Claridge," Feldman recalled some years later. "He sent word to my table that he would like to see me in his office the next day, I went and he offered me $ 50 or $ 60 a week. I told him I would have to have $ 100. He seemed amazed, but he paid
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Feldman are not mentioned in the press as a couple after 1909.
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