Word: ager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reward last year for Joe Connolly's loyalty was a $65,000 job as general man ager of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. But there was a catch in the job: Hearst's empire was tottering. Hearst was getting on and Joe Connolly was expected to get the empire in order before the old man died. He amputated radio stations, shuffled executives, chopped the Chicago Herald and Examiner down to tabloid size. But Connolly could not be everywhere at once. When the Herex and Chicago American units of the American Newspaper Guild struck, Connolly put his cool, alert assistant...
...BROADWAY. And Heloise convinced Dean Cubbage (but nobody else) that she had not posed nude in the shower, as the picture indicated, but in a "flesh leotard, which is similar to a bathing suit. And besides I understood the picture would show only from the shoulders up." Business Man ager Lytton sputtered that he had labored under the same misunderstanding. Snapped the Dean : "Drake does not intend to take any action." At week's end the New York World-Telegram, was able to make it known, in a fitting cinematic denouement to Heloise's adventures, that...
...Year let me renominate England s Edward. This enamored near middle-ager who flouts the public opinion of a nation of conservative sourpusses, and who to cap the climax says he will up and marry the girl is out and ahead of the field in the modern sport of casual iconoclasm. As such he deserves the regained prestige your title must bestow...
...cast her as Pierrette in Chanteur Inconnu opposite Opera Singer Lucien Muratore. She made Le Roi des Palaces for Adolphe Osso and La Petite Chocolatière for Marc Allegret, both comedy roles, got her first serious casting as elflike Puck in Lac aux Dames. Arthur Willnetz, a man ager, introduced her to Sacha Guitry, who gave her a part in O Mon Bel Inconnu. Publicized as "La Sauvage Tendre," she was mobbed by a crowd at a personal appearance in Brussels, tested by Twentieth Century-Fox, signed by Zanuck. Smart, she learned English by reading fairy stories, listening...
...Newshawk Ager met Miss Corio, who in private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...