Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...combination of theatrical gamble and social sure thing. Cafe Society, theatre people, Bohemians, middle-class Johnny-on-the-spots-the toughest theatre crowd in the world to please-are the backbone of every Broadway first-night audience. An hour before curtain time, a mob of babbling celebrity-chasers and autograph hounds, aged ten to 70, starts lining up outside the theatre entrance. As. taxis and limousines roll up, the audience's audience gurgles and gasps ("It's Elsa Maxwell!", "It's Freddie March!", "There's Dorothy Parker!"), then surges forward to nail its prey...
Last week the season reached its limou-zenith: Cafe Society's favorite performer, Beatrice Lillie, headlined a revue, Set to Music, by Cafe Society's pet playwright, Noel Coward. Autograph fiends were in Heaven, pressed together as close as the cards in a sealed deck. A battery of photographers flashed their bulbs as into the Music Box streamed the John Barrymores, Prince Serge Obolensky, Margo, Tallulah Bankhead, Major Bowes, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Hope Hampton, Lady Castlerosse, Lucius Beebe, many another...
...months ago NBC opened its brand-new broadcasting studios in Hollywood- the $1,500,000 Radio City on Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street-and simultaneously knocked the dust out of Hollywood tradition. No floodlights streaked the sky, no celebrities battled their way past autograph hounds to offer congratulations...
...After the game I wanted to meet you and also get your autograph, but circumstances prevented it. (Boo hoo!--'I'm not crying, that's rain in my eyes'). You know something--I've always been an ardent Navy fan in the past, but now suddenly find myself following the Yales. What's the answer? ('Can it be the gypsy in my soul...
...blue shirred frock and red hair-ribbon called on President Roosevelt squired by her father & mother, Mr. & Mrs. George Temple. The conversation ran on lamb chops, a tooth Miss Temple had lately lost, a salmon she had caught in Vancouver. Leaving the White House she exhibited her autograph book, which she considered "a very important book now." Inscribed across one whole page was: "To Shirley, from her old friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt...