These telegrams and letters went back and forth between E.C. Bidwell (Griffith's studio manager while he was in Europe) and Albert H.T. Banzhaf (Griffith's attorney) as well as other people concerning a gap in Colleen's contract while she was supposed to be making "The Savage" for Bluebird Photoplays/Universal FIlm Manufacturing. If she was still under contract in August/September and we are to assume her contract began sometime around her arrival in Los Angeles in November 1916, then clearly her contract was for more than the six months she always claimed. A ledger book entry for December, 1917 shows that at last Colleen wqas paid $900 for her time.