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...choose a new general salesmanager. Slick Adolphe Menjou wants the job. So does paunchy Guy Kibbee. But both of them get into trouble. Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lowell v. Block Booking | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

...Manila a saleswoman in a white-faced department store said: "I think it is most foolish. The leaders should be spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: In Sight of Freedom | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

Burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight-time U. S. woman's tennis champion, revealed that she and her husband, Broker Franklin I. Mallory, are now "poor," that she will soon open a sports shop for women in Manhattan. For six weeks late ly Mrs. Mallory had a job as saleswoman in Saks Fifth Avenue, swank department store. "Well, they fired me. I guess I wasn't so much a drawing card as they hoped I'd be ... you're soon forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

Some years have passed since printed advertising started to make handmaiden of the visual arts, since an attractive young saleswoman persuaded Arthur Rackhan to let his gnomes and gnarled trees be used to advertise Colgate's soap. Maxfield Parrish early turned his lush blues and sunlit yellows to frankly commercial account Recently American Car & Foundry used a series of Rockwell Kent's best drawings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: 1932 Radio | 1/18/1932 | See Source »

...outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman, waitress, has traveled steerage, visited Soviet Russia to get material. Long and often the recipient of editors' rejection-slips, she is now one of the best-paid writers in the U. S. Other books: Humoresque, Lummox, Appassionata, Mannequin, Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Blonde | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

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