Word: newspaperman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while they showed vaudeville, but in 1915 they turned to burlesque. Brother Billy, onetime newspaperman, ablest of the group, had at that time never seen a burlesque show. He prefers Wagner, Dostoevsky, "deep books" and Edgar Wallace. Unlike other theatrical entertainment, burlesque requires no rehearsal. It is a traditional art. There are some 400 "bits" and Brother Billy simply specifies what series of bits he wants his stock company to perform each week. Sample "bit" is "Bibs & Bibs," involving two couples, one including a henpecked husband, the other a browbeaten wife. After a few drinks the situation is reversed...
Author Charles Christian Wertenbaker, newspaperman, Satevepost writer, is a weekly contributor to TIME. He has also written: Boojnm', Peter the Drunk...
POWER AND GLORY, The Life of Boies Penrose - Walter Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...
...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
...history of Popular Magazine is the story of Editor Charles Agnew MacLean's life. Editor MacLean was born in Ireland in 1880. Aged five, he was taken to the U.S. His father was a newspaperman who scraped enough money together for Son Charles to go to college. Charles demurred, made his parents move into a better house in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Fired from the New York Sun, fired from the Times, in 1903 Charles Agnew MacLean went to work for Street & Smith. Year after he was put in charge of Smith's, Ainslie's and the newly...