Word: autographer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every possible occasion last week bands played his music-Memphis Blues, Beale Street Blues, St. Louis Blues. Whenever he sauntered down the street there was a clamor for his autograph, a crowd of pickaninnies with hands out for pennies. Paul Whiteman brought Handy to the stage of Municipal Auditorium when he played there for the big Floral Ball. Beale Street made him the leader of its grand parade. He stood in the first automobile, doffing his hat to left & right. At small Handy Park, named in his honor, he mounted a reviewing stand, settled down in an old-fashioned rocking...
...said the King, "and I've got a nasty bone in my leg, too. I say, if you send that photograph to St. James's Palace, I shall be very glad to autograph...
...from every country in the world, each dressed in native costume. On the Fox lot she keeps rabbits and a flock of bantam chickens. The chickens operate with punctuality. Each night Shirley takes home an egg to eat for breakfast. In addition to satisfying constant requests for her own autograph, she collects those of other celebrities. Her contacts have enabled her to assemble one of the best collections in the world...
...being fresh. When, preparatory to meeting H. G. Wells, she was informed that he was the most important man in the universe, she chirped: "Oh no, he's not! God is the most important and Governor Merriam's second." In Palm Springs she showed General Pershing her autograph book and asked him whether he knew the Hollywood notables whose names were in it. On learning that he knew none of them, she lost interest in him, disrespectfully inquired later how he came to be a general. She likes vaudeville jokes, frequently repeats an impudent riddle she learned from...
...final curtain sent autograph-hunters scurrying around to the narrow stage entrance where one of the few to be admitted was Louise Jones, a gaunt, middle-aged blind woman from Kansas City who plays the violin, runs a beauty shop and keeps scrapbooks of Grace Moore press clippings. Miss Jones had never heard her idol in opera before. But she had sat through 40 showings of One Night of Love, a record bettered, according to Grace Moore, only by a Welshwoman whom she met in London last summer. The Welshwoman, aged 76, had seen the cinema 76 times...