Word: vulgarizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...product of an inventive cinema salesman from the West Coast. Leo ("Bromo") Seltzer, 32, worked for Universal Pictures Corp., until five years ago when he staged the first commercial Walkathon in Denver. He promoted 22 more, grossed $2,000,000, retired because he felt that Walkathons were becoming vulgar. He inaugurated the Roller Derby in Chicago last August, held two more in Louisville and Kansas City. Roller Derby teams are selected from the Transcontinental Roller Derby Association, formed by Promoter Seltzer last year to help popularize his new pastime. On 1,600 rinks, the 3.000 members...
...from comparisons in their reviews. But the Metropolitan lobby was a hotbed of discussion as to which of the two new Carmens had done the better job. Wettergren, like Ponselle, indulged in occasional exaggerated horseplay, tweaked various noses, poked choristers in the ribs. But she was never so flagrantly vulgar as the Connecticut Carmen. Ponselle's voice is much richer, but the Swedish soprano used hers with more taste and intelligence, gave the part more variety...
...including some prominent Oxonians. At this provocation not even smelling salts could prevent Putzy from flying wrathfully off the handle. In court last week Dr. Hanfstaengl, admirably composed, declared, "Such a statement as the one attributed to me could only have been made by a man of violent and vulgar temper." In an injured tone the big man continued softly, "What hurt me most was the idea that somebody would say I would burn down the finest seat of learning in the Anglo-Saxon world. It is just like saying I would burn down Goethe's or Schiller...
Experts on infant psychology refused to comment officially on the startling revelations, but one leading authority anonymously states, "It is indeed a sad commentary on the youth of this great institution, that they needs must flee to the vulgar and profane amusements of the mob for relaxation...
...Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks commercially and politically near the top. His New York paper, the Post which he bought two years ago, has made a good deal of vulgar noise getting on its feet but has not yet proved its journalistic worth...