Word: impostors
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Potato-nosed Jimmy Durante, the living composite of Manhattan cab drivers, did not have to work hard for his laughs. Covered with characteristic confusion, Funnyman Durante finds himself trying to climb over the orchestra pit to assert his identity when an impostor is introduced on stage in the second scene. He appears to be, as usual, utterly unable to control his feelings. He shakes his parrotlike head, hurls his hat at the band, indulges his ignorant fondness for British idioms, tells the old one about the floorwalker who thought he was about to be kicked by the dog, sings snatches...
...evening last week very quietly. He knew his getting out of the hat at all was a sensation. Last seen in a Paris jail after a U. S. woman missed a $100 American Express check, Harry F. ("Mike") Gerguson ("Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff"), 42, all-time amateur impostor, ordered a cup of coffee after a six-day fast and sent a note to friends at another table, "Sorry to have disturbed you but I have just landed. Michael R." Talking fast in his baa-baa Oxford accent, with the manner of a man born with a gold spoon...
...Note: The following is an extract from the serial biography of Prince Michael Romanoff, nee Gerguson, an impostor...
...Joseph de Barthe. now dead, wrote and published a thin little book entitled The Answer to "The President's Daughter" in which he defended President Harding's good name, denied that the President was biologically able to achieve paternity, depicted Miss Britton as an unscrupulous impostor with a bad character. Round-faced, smiling Charles Augustus Klunk, 53, old Harding friend, proprietor of the Marion (Ohio) Hotel, put Author de Barthe's book on sale at the newsstand of his musty old American-plan hostelry. Miss Britton filed a $50,000 suit against him on the ground that...
...This impostor is described as a Latin-American, eighteen years of age, about five feet four inches tall, good looking, with one tooth missing on the right side of his jaw. He gives his address as Hamilton Hall, Cambridge...