Word: sheridan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...then that the idea of bringing her to Cambridge originated, this time in the mind of a New York Warner Brothers press agent, who hot-footed it up to Cambridge to look over the ground and plan for the floodlights and grandstands which would accompany Miss Sheridan's debut in Harvard Square...
Although the locale of the Sheridan premiere will not be decided definitely for a day or two yet, the Warner Brothers publicity machine by last week was hitting on all 12 cylinders, firing press releases, Sheridan statements, and fake tie-up stories involving Yale, Princeton, and Boston University...
Only yesterday a Warner Brothers operative in Boston persuaded some undergraduates to steal a seal and plant it in a student's room, and tried to drag Ann Sheridan into the picture by saying, "This seal has more oomph than the Lampoon" to every reporter he could find...
...gags weren't to stop here. Among the Warner office schemes was a plan to invite W. Russell Bowie, Jr. '41, Lampoon President, out to Hollywood for a weekend to visit Ann Sheridan. Despite the fact that the movie company was to pay all expenses including plane fare both ways, the Lampoon refused...
When and if La Sheridan came to Cambridge, the Warner crew hoped to effect a public reconciliation between Ann and the Poon by having Lampoon editors and the oomph girl pose for the press in intimate and forgiving attitudes...