Word: baruchism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author of the cash & carry idea is no Congressman but a great mental as well as fiscal speculator, Bernard Mannes Baruch...
Hitch Your Wagon (by Bernard C. Schoenfeld; Pearson & Baruch, producers). Night of this comedy's Washington try-out opening, the theatre manager received the following telegram from a Hollywood lawyer named Henry C. Huntington: "From report it appears Hitch Your Wagon burlesques my client Barrymore as well as Elaine Barrie. I hereby warn you that I will hold you strictly responsible, if this play is produced, on behalf of my client...
That one was the face of a beautiful youth. Old Baruch could not supply his name, so Rachel called him Zanko. For Zanko, and sometimes for old Baruch, Rachel danced like Isadora Duncan, sang like Schumann-Heink...
...fine day Professor Michael heard her singing, investigated and discovered Baruch's secret. Thereafter it took all his will power to remind himself that he was a respectable, middle-aged married...
...Istanbul, where she danced and sang for her supper in waterfront dives, she found him. Alas, he was not what he seemed. All he wanted was . . . her body. When Rachel discovered that the real Zanko had been his twin brother, whom he had murdered, she drowned herself. Old Baruch, who had been searching for her, found her in time to get her death mask made, sent it to Michael as a souvenir...