Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous 34 years of his life Harry Bridges was completely obscure. Born at Kensington, Australia, in 1900, he was christened Alfred Renton Bridges. His father, an estate agent there, explains that his son was called Renton but "this name was a bit too much for his American Pals," who dubbed him Harry. At 17, after a sound schooling, Alfred Renton Bridges got a job as a clerk in a Melbourne firm called Sauls & McDougal, Ltd. It was his father's desire that his son eventually join him in business. But restless young Renton wanted...
...names signed to the pro-Hallin petition at week's end, Board Member Paul Haley promised a special board meeting to reopen the case. Meantime, well aware that her pretty face had been appearing daily in metropolitan prints, in one shot ostentatiously sipping milk, Isabelle Hallin mused: "An agent who handles Tyrone Power asked me to take a screen test. Of course, I would like to go to Hollywood, but first of all I want to clear myself with the people here in Saugus...
Born. To Actress Margaret Sullavan, whose successful play Stage Door was closed because of her confinement last March, and to Theatrical Agent Leland Hayward: a girl, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Brooke Hayward...
Amelia Earhart was born 39 years ago in Atchison, Kans. Her father was a lawyer and railway claim agent. She went east to study at Columbia University, then west to be with her parents, who had moved to Los Angeles. In California. Amelia saw many more airplanes than in Kansas. The idea of flying excited her. Famed Captain Frank Hawks took her up for her first flight. In 1918 she made her first solo, after ten hours of instruction. Two years later she set a woman's altitude record...
Stage-managed by his Washington press-agent was a luncheon the following day at which Mr. Girdler carried on for the benefit of a few handpicked newshawks. Earlier efforts by reporters to arrange an open press conference collapsed when Mr. Girdler is said to have learned that Columnist Heywood Broun planned to attend. Even at his private conference Mr. Girdler got into hot water. Calling the Mediation Board "incompetent and unfair," he asked: "Who is Taft? He is a man who likes to talk about the things his father did. Who is Ed McGrady? He is Fannie Perkins...