Word: marcoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Berliner of 13, he had made up his mind he was going to be an anthropologist. At 15 he had become such an expert on the American Indian that he amused himself compiling technical errors in the Leather Stocking Tales. He wrote a dissertation on the ethnographic significance of Marco Polo's travels. Before he was 20 he had had to work as a farmer and clerk, but by the time he came of age he had hammered his way onto the staff of the Bremen Museum...
Producer Fanchon, 42, was Fanny Wolf, daughter of a Los Angeles clothing store proprietor. She studied piano; her brother Mike (Marco) fiddle. Together they entertained at lodge parties and picnics, graduated to a dinner show in Tait's famed San Francisco restaurant. Fanchon & Marco embellished their act with other specialties, began to play theatre dates in their spare time. When the demand grew they organized a second company, coalesced their troupe in a musical show Sunkist which they took to Broadway. Two weeks later the Southern Pacific Railroad accepted Marco's note for $2,800 to transport...
Fanchon was the creative brains of the outfit. She built her whole show around some novel production number, blending costumes and tunes to whatever the girls were doing. They came out on bicycles, skates and skis. They wore bunny costumes, appeared disguised as flowers, birds or animals. Fanchon & Marco, Inc. snowballed until theatres which had bought franchises from them became bankrupt and in order to keep units out they had to become theatre operators. Fanchon & Marco shrank from 52 units a year to two units a month...
...Brothers Benno, Leo, Marco & Emil Scheiner, fresh from Europe, Artist de Chirico had fashioned a twelve-foot mural. A curly-headed youth in a collar much too big for him and full evening dress with swooping tails, occupies the right foreground. In the middle distance are a couple of characteristic de Chirico broken columns and an even more typical roly-poly, curly-tailed, prancing de Chirico horse, on which is mounted a man in a pink coat. Other figures seen are clothed in sack suits. "It took me about a week," said Artist de Chirico at last week...
...great Paris couturiers do. Sons and grandsons of Viennese hofschneider (court tailors), the current Scheiners expanded their Vienna business, opened branches in Berlin, Amsterdam, Antwerp. It is their boast that many a London blood travels all the way to Antwerp to have his trousers fitted by either Benno, Leo, Marco or Emil. Because some U. S. tycoons do likewise the Scheiners decided to open a fourth branch in Manhattan...