Word: ager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Variety, famed theatrical weekly which long frowned upon this type of quasi-naked performance, took cognizance of the importance of the burlesque stripper by sending Cecelia Ager, its star woman reporter, to interview the highest paid, best-known stripper in Burlesque. The navel of svelte Italianate Anne Corio is as well known to a large section of the public as the nose of Jimmy Durante...
...sides with the business as against the governmental executive : "The man ager's restless pillow has done more to advance the practical arts than all the legislation upon the statute books...
Publisher Hearst, who was present at Miss Davies' party, had a good laugh with his eldest son George and Publisher George Young of the Examiner. So did Mr. Hearst's oldtime secretary Joe Willicombe and Thomas J. White, general man ager of all Hearstpapers, who were there, too. But their smiles must have frozen when, three days later, they discovered that ever since the party the line at the top of the real Examiner's cinema page had, by some excruciating oversight, carried the slug: "... A PAPER FOR PEOPLE WHO DRINK...
...ceased to tolerate. Painful no doubt to Japanese Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara, peace apostle, were the actions of the Japanese General Staff last week. Japanese planes not only bombed Chinese villages in Manchuria but ground-strafed a train on which, in his private car, rode indignant General Man ager J. G. Thomson of the Peiping-Mukden Railway, a British subject. Japanese troops if withdrawing at all from Manchuria were withdrawing last week very slowly. In British Hong Kong, Chinese mobs rushed the Japanese quarter, were restrained only by a bayonet charge of the Scotch Highlanders, kilts aflutter...
...have shown interest are King Zog I of Albania; Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of the late great novelist; Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, wife of New York's onetime Lieutenant Governor, whose daughter was married in a Baha'i ceremony (TIME, March 10, 1930); Solon Fieldman, onetime Socialist leader; Dow ager Queen Marie of Rumania...