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...dance hall opened in Manhattan and thousands of the jitterbug youth of the Melting Pot jounced, flung and stomped themselves into possession of it. The hall was Manhattan's famous Madison Square Garden, turned into a summer Dance Carnival at a cost of $100,000 by Showman Monte Proser...
...last week's opening, while Benny Goodman's brasses blasted One O'Clock Jump at a jumping, sweating tumult, it seemed that Proser's enormous joint had a chance to make the 30,000 weekly admissions and $18,000 weekly gross estimated as necessary to break even...
Small, swarthy, horn-rimmed Monte Proser has the somewhat weary, harassed countenance of many men who have endured and survived Broadway and Hollywood show business. Born in London, he came to the U.S. at 14, was Food Administrator Herbert Hoover's office boy during World War I. He has also been a stable boy, peanut salesman, barker and roustabout for Snapp Brothers' Circus, paid promoter of theatricals on Long Island and in Yellowstone Park. As a Hollywood press agent he plugged Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd, George Arliss, Lupe Velez, Hedy Lamarr. During the past decade he press-agented...
...following men spoke on the affirmative side: J. S. Brown '92, E. H. Warren '95, F. W. Dallinger '93, C. T. R. Bates '92, J. W. Howerth '93, E. E. Proser Gr., H. A. Poor '95, P. L. Horne '92, J. W. Young L. S., J. V. Owen, L. S., S. Wolff '93, M. A. Bartlett '93, A. F. Crosby '94, I. Blanstein Sp., A. Lathom '92, J. B. Cockrell '95, H. A. Bull...
...this age of steam, the telegraph, and telephone, affairs move faster than they did a century ago, and there is no time to be spared on the proser; certainly not in busy Cambridge, though here the species is not yet extinct, as the experience of many students will attest...