Word: logan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Footloose Widows (Jacqueline Logan, Louise Fazenda). One of the million methods of winning a husband is examined in this comedy. Two lonely females pretend they are married, seeking behind this pretense men with millions. To their dismay the principal prospect turns out to be a fifty-cent tailor. Later they locate their fated loves. Miss Logan, always one of the loveliest of stars and Miss Fazenda, returning to her frantic low comedy methods of the early days, performed pleasantly...
...advertising business it was a big event when last week the firm of Lord & Thomas (Chicago, Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London) merged with that of Thomas F. Logan Inc. (Manhattan) to form the firm of Lord & Thomas and Logan. It was a wedding of one of the oldest members of the Fifth Estate with one of the youngest; of the popularizer of many famed household commodities with the interpreter of many huge public service and transportation corporations. It was the formation of one of the largest advertising concerns in the world* and the coalition of two perfect representatives...
...wonder that lately he has been able to let Lord & Thomas carry on largely under its own momentum, with a buzz from him; small wonder that, still well short of 50, he can sit back as chairman of the board in the big new merger and let Thomas F. Logan be the active president...
Thomas F. Logan is just the opposite of the aggressive, hammering, obviously successful Lasker. He is slimmer, fairer, quieter -not smoother, for dynamos of the Lasker type are well-oiled-but gentler, more subtly persuasive. His training was that of a journalist-economist, after a genteel boyhood and Jesuit education in Philadelphia. He was a Washington correspondent and there learned the ins and outs of politics, which stood him in good stead when, in 1919, he started an advertising company in Manhattan with no accounts at all. His first act was to undertake, for the Association of Railroad Executives...
...Apology" which prefaces his work, on sale now at the Dunster House Book Shop. Patek writes: "I am indebted to Mr. Logan Pearsall Smith whose "Trivia" suggested the idea and form of this book, but especially to myself, whose untiring efforts to find a printer made this book possible...