Word: reichenbach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal has bobbed up persistently in the New York City Press for the past three years. Last week Mr. Blumenthal's pressagent, Walter Reichenbach, sued for $300 back pay, testified that he had been engaged to publicize Mr. Blumenthal, his wife Peggy Fears (onetime Follies girl), their shows and the fact that Mr. Blumenthal was an intimate of James John ("Jimmy") Walker, when Mayor. Mr. Blumenthal called the last allegation "a malicious and gratuitous falsehood." So public a character has Mr. Blumenthal become that the New Yorker felt it must look him up, last...
...romance between a circus spieler (Tracy) and a cooch dancer (Velez) made funny by the way the dialog, by Bartlett Cormack and Corey Ford, and Gregory La Cava's direction favor the eccentricities of Tracy and Velez. Vaguely derived from incidents in the life of famed Publicist Harry Reichenbach, the story rambles about in the noisy manner of such carnival anecdotes. The spieler blackmails a producer (Frank Morgan), puts a lion in the cooch dancer's hotel room. Ballyhooed into being a musical comedy star, she goes back to cooch dancing when the spieler publicizes another carnival wench...
Died. Harry Lafayette Reichenbach, 49, press agent; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Versatile, spectacular, he served governments, corporations, and such personages as Phineas Taylor Barnum, Sarah Bernhardt, Wallace Reid, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore. "September Morn" was his idea. He loosed a lion in a Broadway hotel to advertise the cinema Tarzan. He imported eight Turks and had them search Manhattan's Central Park for a missing Virgin of Stamboul. A member of the U. S. Diplomatic Corps for three years, he worked with Lord Northcliffe in England, d'Annunzio in Italy. Said he after...