Word: maney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, introducing his friend to Star readers, Broadway Pressagent Richard Maney wrote: "Lardner will introduce at least one revolutionary note into dramatic criticism. He'll back his opinions with cash. Do you think that Boston has more people than Baltimore . . . that Bill Terry never hit .400? If you do it will cost you money to talk to Lardner. It's neither ballast nor diaries which bulge his jerkin. They're loose-leaf ledgers tabulating his daily speculations...
...that "Billy's got a seven-track mind," and a friend calls him "one of the few men I know who has learned anything after 35." Billy's greatest aid in the learning process is a sort of photographic brain capable of almost total recall. Pressagent Dick Maney believes that Billy remembers every good gag he has ever heard: "When I first knew Billy, he had only one figure of speech-everything was like the inside of Earl Carroll's stomach. Then it got so I could tell who he'd been out with the night...
That winter, the Rose really bloomed. His name became as current in Broadway beaneries as stale bagels. To keep up the chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...Theater Wing had lined up a topflight faculty: Producers Oscar Hammerstein and Brock Pemberton, Director Margaret Webster, Choreographers Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins, Designer Donald Oenslager, Theatrical Pressagent Richard Maney, CBS's Worthington Miner, some 100 other theater and radio names. Most of them would take part in the most popular course: the theater symposium, a big bull session designed to brief students on developments in their business during the last four years...
...Manhattan, as a boy he sang at the Church of the Epiphany, went to Stuyvesant High School, taught at the Bethel Mennonite College in North Newton, Kans. He has acted on the road and in Chicago, has written pulp stories, vaudeville sketches, two Broadway flops. His press agent Richard Maney swears that Mr. Kesselring has recently lived on "herbs, wild berries and pemmican...