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...Then Manhattan-born Frank Toscani, a grade-three clerk in New York City's Department of Sanitation before he went off to war, began to find embarrassed frustration as well as wonder in his shadow. Both stage & screen showed Joppolo carrying on-though not quite carried away by-a love affair. Joppolo also countermanded a stupid order by a general, and got transferred for it. Worst of all, Frank Toscani felt that the shadow was not sharing his huge earnings with anybody but Writer Hersey, Playwright Osborn, Producer Leland Hayward and the Playwrights Producing Co., Inc., and Twentieth Century...
...Manhattan-born Abram S. Burrows, who looks like an accountant or a salesman (he has been both), worked as a Wall Street runner, a board boy, a coat label peddler until he was nearly 30. Then he sold gags to Eddie Garr, the mimic, for $125. That turned him into a radio writer. Until last summer, he wrote Duffy's Tavern...
...surprising $2,500 first prize winner* was a cluttered, satirical Soda Jerker by 5 9-year-old Manhattan-born modernist Paul Burlin. Pepsi-Cola, which reproduces prizewinners on a calendar, carefully omitted Soda Jerker. Burlin painted it nine years ago, before he ever heard of Pepsi-Cola, to show the drugstore "as an ironic, decorative melange. It's a hell of a place...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
...Legend. Joe Day was Manhattan-born of English-Irish parents. His father, who had a prosperous soda-water business in New York City, died when Joe was five. His mother died nine years later. Joe left school, went to work for a Manhattan wholesale dry-goods firm; salary, $100 a year. By the age of 20, he was a star salesman, and had left the firm when he was refused a raise to $15 a week. He went into the real-estate business with a friend. Terms: Day put in no capital, but was to get a partnership...