Word: hatter
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...Metropolitan Opera House. A beggar walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...
...Knox the Hatter (Manhattan) advertised: "Pay like a gentleman ... if you must bet on your favorite sport, bet something you'd like to win. Bet a Knox...
...called Actor Edward Hugh Sothern "a pink-toed high-hatter" (TIME, March...
...Edward Hugh Sothern, 70-year-old Shakespearean trouper, refused to be interviewed by reporters from the Amarillo, Tex., News-Globe, editor Gene Howe, irascible critic of Mary Garden and Charles Augustus Lindbergh (TIME, June n, 1928, April i, 19-29) referred to Actor Sothern as a "pink-toed high-hatter." Advised the News-Globe: "Don't pay any of your good money to see him." From the stage, Actor Sothern announced that he was returning to the management the $500 he was to receive for the performance, saying: "My toes are not pink. This is the worst thing that...
...Colonel Knox* whose chief problem was competition with the rapidly rising Dunlap hat. Whether because Robert Dunlap, liberal, kindly, used frequently to suspend production in Dunlap shops while he bought beer for the men and ice cream for the women, or because of a secret process by which Hatter Dunlap succeeded in turning out the blackest derbies ever known, the Dunlap hat eventually outsold the Knox in Manhattan. For many a year small hat-makers held up their spring lines until they could see and imitate the Dunlap derby and the Knox felt. As for Knox-Dunlap competition, both...