Word: limelighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian literature to women. After he had published 20 books of short stories and three novels, a playwright friend persuaded him to dramatize one of his stories into a one-act play. With Six Characters in Search of an Author (produced in Rome in 1921) Pirandello leaped into the limelight. He gave up teaching; from a hermit-like professor he soon became a fashionable and active author-manager, rushing to openings by airplane...
...directors of Fox Film Corp. to make way for Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware (receiver for General Theatres Equipment, Inc., which controls Fox) and several Fox officials. No change of control was signified, but gentlemen had a natural desire to retire from a directorate on which the limelight of Senatorial investigation may soon be playing...
...question of breaking training has again been dragged out into the limelight as the result of a meeting of the track team yesterday where the coach informed his men that he had definite proof in the shape of anonymous letters that some of them were breaking training. He proceeded to ask all of them to report any future defalcations along this line on the part of their teammates, and concluded with a sweeping exhortation to fight for cleaner sports and dear old Harvard. Thus was brought of a climax a subject on which certain episodes in the football season...
...Chicago said his wife: "He loves the limelight. He's a four-flusher...
...obituary that Frank Ward O'Malley wrote for himself long after he became "O'Malley of the Sun," one of Manhattan's truly famed newspaper reporters, old style. He quit the newspaper business in 1919, wrote undistinguished magazine articles, moved to Europe, faded from the limelight. Yet when he died last week at 56 in France, "O'Malley of the Sun" was still news all over the country. Editorials mourned the passing of a Great Reporter. Colyumist F. P. Adams called him "the perfect and utter newspaperman...