Word: reichenbach
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...perhaps inevitable in an age of prompt publicity that many a trivial incident should reach the general world in a halo or with horns. At any rate eager reporters--sometimes play fairy godmother to publicity agents. One of these, Harry Reichenbach, has just begun a series of articles of which the first appears in the current "Liberty", a bit gloating in manner, but none the less picturesque...
...Reichenbach is particularly proud of having raised, on a wager, a certain Nina Barbour from sweatshop to stage within ten days. He engaged two actresses (whose publicity he handled) to halt their car, as if with motor trouble, before a dingy building on the Bowery. As pre-arranged, a sweet voice sounded from a window, singing "On the Banks of the Wabash". Also as pre-arranged, the two actresses stepped from their car, stared up at the window, and, before the crowd thus attracted, entered the building and brought Nina Barbour out to notoriety and motored her away...
Singles--Hofkin (P) defeated Rueter (H), 6-1, 7-5; Kraft (P) defeated Sayles (H), 6-3, 6-4; French (H) defeated Walker (P), 6-4, 4-6, 10-8; Grafmueller (P) defeated Reichenbach...
...Tech Freshmen, Reuter (H) defeated Benson (M I T), 6-1, 6-1; Sayles (H) defeated Hegedorn (M I T), 6-4, 6-3; French (H) defeated Palo (M I T), 6-2, 6-0; Dupertuis (H) defeated Jordon (M I T), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Reichenbach (H) defeated Russell...
Collier's Weekly, for Nov. 15, carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions...