Word: agented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
...freight alone, seven more also carrying passengers are scheduled to sail before the freeze-over about Sept. 30. Costing $70 per ticket, the voyage takes from 14 to 20 days, offers a view of a part of the world where few besides explorers have been. According to the booking agent, last week's six tourists-four from Vancouver, two from Regina-were merely "curiosity seekers...
Last month U. S. newsreaders had their interest in spies aroused when in Los Angeles a onetime Navy yeoman named Harry Thomas Thompson was tried, convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for selling U. S. Fleet secrets to a Japanese agent (TIME, July 6). Last week the name and face of onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer Farnsworth suddenly appeared on the front pages of the nation's Press when the Department of Justice accused him of betraying Naval secrets to Japan...
...fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
Though inspired by The Great Barnum, these tax experts did not take in an Internal Revenue agent in Miami named Charles Williamson Clarke, who spent nearly three years on the Ringling case. "Mr. John" says Revenuer Clarke now knows more about the circus business than he does. Since last year Assistant U. S. Attorney James Randall Creel in Manhattan has been preparing the 400 pages of indictments and the mass of evidence to be used when the case goes to trial. Prosecutor Creel has also become something of a circus expert, though at Harvard (Class...