Word: tinney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chorus girl. Last week Florenz Ziegfeld issued a general order (by telegraph, as is his custom) to omit Imogene Wilson from further performances of his current Follies. And all because she got herself in the newspapers for an alleged punch in the eye at the hand of Frank Tinney, piebald comedian...
...newspaper interview the lovely Miss Wilson reported that she never wanted to see Tinney again, that she was through with Broadway, that she had accepted a motion picture contract out West "where men are men, and not black-face comedians...
...Daily News, which first caused gum-strengthened jaws to drop at her adventure, saw the comedian and the comedienne on a friendly promenade near Broadway. Mr. Tinney smashed the News photographer's camera...
...Tinney sailed for Europe. Imogene visited him on the steamer. Variety (theatrical weekly) concluded that they must be reconciled since they spent several hours in his stateroom apparently in earnest conference. The newspapers bulged anew. Imogene went back to the Follies and found herself without...
...midst of the melee newspaper reporters asked Mrs. Tinney (there is one) whether Frank's pranks appealed to her. "Be yourself," answered Mrs. Tinney cryptically. A few hours before he sailed, Frank was served with papers in a suit for separation...