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172 PART IX.
Film Co. (II, 1127, fol. 2.) Some time afterwards Ensor received a wire or letter from J. J. Kennedy, president of the General Film Co., summoning him to New York. He described his visit as follows (II, 1127 (fol. 4) -1129) :
Well, I put up at a hotel, and Kennedy phoned to me what time he wanted me to come down to the Edison Building; I think it is at 10 Fifth Avenue, if I ain 't mistaken ; and then he phoned me it would be a little later, and so I went down, and he was not quite ready, and I went into a room where there was a big table, and there was an army of them sitting around it, and, of course, I met them ; they introduced me to all of them around; and finally I got tired of waiting, and I said, " What's the reason some of you sitting here, you fellows, can't open up and tell me what that offer is? " and none of them opened up, and Kennedy came in after a while and sat down, and the first thing he said was, ' ' Now, Ensor, I want you to know, by God, that I am a bad man," and he said, " Whenever I make an offer or proposition one time," he said, " I won't be responsible for the outcome if it ain't accepted." That is about as near the words as I can remember. W(»ll, I discussed about whether we would sell out or not, and I told him I had just begun to make some money out there, and that I didn't want to sell if I could help it, but I kn(nv that they had the advantage of us, w(^ had to get our supply from them; and finally \w made us the offer, or I asked