Word: theatreman
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When Harry Frazee, Manhattan theatreman, bought the Boston Red Sox in 1917, they were a highly respectable big-league baseball team. They had won the World Series in 1912, 1915, 1916. After they won one more, Frazee enriched himself by selling all his best players including Babe Ruth. In 1924 he sold the team to Robert Quinn for $1,200,000. Since then the Red Sox have finished last in the American League every year except 1924 when they were seventh, 1931 when they were sixth. Last week Owner Quinn gloomily announced that he had sold his team...
...Because the only wife I could ever tolerate," rumbled Unser Anton, "is your wife!" General von Galgotzy meant it. When Theatreman Maurice died, General von Galgotzy, already over 60, married his widow...
Died. Edmund Reinhardt, 53, of Vienna, brother and business manager of Theatreman Max Reinhardt; in a sani-torium near Vienna; of heart disease...
...years ago Claire Ulrich, chorus girl met Charles E. Whitehurst, Baltimore. Md., theatreman, in Manhattan. They went to a hotel. In their room, without witnesses, they read to each other the marriage service from a prayer book, exchanged vows. On page 449 the girl wrote "Claire" and then "Charles." As man and wife they lived together briefly...
Snooty spectators may scorn the mechanical thunder of this Willard Mack truck, but they will probably be unable to do so until they are outside of the theatre. It is asserted that Theatreman Mack gathered his material directly from the blotter of a Canadian police court and it is also asserted, on poorer authority, that some of the incidents in his play will be discussed in a temple of justice far closer to Broadway. Said Burns Mantle, able critic to the N. Y. Daily News: "Hoist the warnings! Go tell Jimmie Sinnott, the mayor's censor!* The prostitutes...
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