Word: agenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presse (Paris mob journal). The details given by La Presse were such that they seemed to have come from Exile Blackmer himself. La Presse said that when Blackmer's passport was taken from him last year on a train between Nice and Marseilles, the U.S. consular agent who obtained the passport did so by the trick of impersonating a French police official. La Presse said that the agent slipped the passport out the train window to a colleague on the platform. La Presse said that the colleague on the platform was the U. S. Consul at Nice. Also...
Paradoxical for an advertising agent whose business it is to make all things interesting was Mr. Barton's approving quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "History will continually grow less interesting...
Siamese Twins. No one would suppose Terry Turner, a fat and smirking Broadwayfarer, to be an exploiter of monstrosity. Yet such is part of his profession. The Hilton twins, Siamese ones, who live in Texas, owe their fame and vaudeville contracts especially to him. Last fortnight this press-agent for Loew's Vaudeville Circuit turned his talents on another female pair, the Gibb twins, Mary and Margaret, joined since birth and recent members of a Coney Island freak museum. Very discreetly, he let it be known in newspaper offices that one of them was in love and that they...
Last week, as shrewd observers had expected, the operation was called off. The mother of the twins became anxious and the girls hobbled away from their hospital to their home in Holyoke, Mass. With them they had a fat contract for 15 weeks in vaudeville; not, however, with Press-agent Turner's organization but with its rival, Keith...
Actress Louise Groody, plump, frolicsome musical comedy headliner (Good Morning Dearie, Hit the Deck) swam playfully last week, in the fashionable Lido pool on the Champs Elysées, Paris, collapsed naturally, was removed routinely to the American Hospital at Neuilly. The attention she gained so accidentally her press agent put to prompt, broad and good...