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...Portrait of a Press Agent" (TIME Jan. 8): "He [Maney] ushered without pay in a Seattle theatre." Well, Dick Maney may have ushered without pay for some short period in the Moore Theater in Seattle, but my definite recollections-as an usher without pay-was that Dick was a very hard-boiled head usher who unmercifully ordered us school boys up into the balcony if we arrived too late to don one of the purple faced tuxedos and starched dickies required for first floor ushering. And his was a pay job-part salary and a portion of the take...
...Maney's principal problems was to collect enough ushers for ordinary road shows, while he was overrun with ushering talent during the weeks when we would have The Chocolate Soldier, Merry Widow and like extravaganzas of the day. Marie Dressier and even highbrows like Geraldine Farrar packed 'em in, including dozens of unneeded ushers...
With his Irish mug and scarred nose, Maney-who in appearance is a roustabout George M. Cohan-looks the part he plays. He also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...
...Evenings Maney makes the round of his shows. He seldom has time for other people's, has never seen six-year-old Tobacco Road. After theatre he drifts to a tavern, usually a newspapermen's hangout like Jack Bleeck's, where he guzzles and plays the match game for high stakes with his cronies, also gets in a word with dozens of useful newspaper people...
Smart, cold-blooded businessman though he is, Maney sometimes takes on flops, turns down successes. Last season he almost took on Madame Capet, which ran for seven performances, instead of Oscar Wilde, which ran for 247. He sets his income at $25,000 a year; Broadway sets it higher...