Word: tabloidally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wizened Willie Howard goes most of the credit for the show's fun. Rushing headlong through scene after scene, he is successively and inexhaustibly a plumber, a French general, a Hungarian doctor, a tabloid editor, a victim to his lawyer ("For Gott sake gif him de two dollas!"), a mustachioed French lover crawling over a blonde in a gondola...
...financially interested in the Sunday News. Six months ago prolific Author-Playwright Edgar Wallace acquired control, wrote theatrical criticism in it, gave horse-race tips, scattered his name and the name of his multifarious works throughout the paper. The Sunday News will be incorporated with the Sunday Graphic, a tabloid picture paper...
...number of unemployed newsmen in New York City has been estimated as high as 5,000, about two-thirds of whom are employable. This week witnessed the first overt effort of the jobless to help themselves as a group, with the publication of a weekly tabloid named Newsdom. It is an eight-page, five-column sheet devoted largely to gossip of newspaper offices in the New York metropolitan area, to be sold among working newspapermen, admen & pressmen...
Obviously autobiographical is Hot News although the exploits recounted are a composite of all Tabloidia. Probably for fear of libel. Author Gauvreau has veiled his characters with flimsy disguises which re quire no seasoned newsmen to penetrate. Himself, as protagonist, he calls Jonathan Peters, his tabloid, The Comet...
...proximity to Cinemactress Bow, revealed that Clara Bow played poker six nights a week, bought herself a $10,000 engagement ring, gave rings and watches to her men friends-of whom Secretary de Boe mentioned Richman, Pierson, Gary Cooper, Lothar Mendez, Rex Bell. A Hollywood publisher of a weekly tabloid, Frederic H. Girnau, then printed Bow anecdotes, was charged with sending obscene matter through the mails. After the case was tried, Cinemactress Bow suffered a second nervous breakdown, had to stop work on The Secret Call, was taken to a sanatorium to rest...