Word: zit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspaper treatment of the Graustein-Patton marriage. Here was surely a saga of romance without a trace of scandal. Here was modern Manhattan's version of the Prince and Cinderella-a syncopated setting for an ageless theme. Yet the story was announced (two months after the wedding) in Zit's Weekly, theatrical trade-paper. Later the tabloids carried it. But solid, standard papers-Times, World, Herald Tribune, Sim, Post-ignored the week's-and one of the year's-greatest human interest story...
...thick with vindictive joy. Harry Thaw, onetime maniac, hysterical with delight, jigged up and down at his table until Miss Guinan led him out on the floor to introduce him. She read congratulatory messages from such friends as Manhattan's Congressman La Guardia, Henry Zittel of Zit's (theatrical weekly...
...Zit's Theatrical Newspaper it was last week recorded that a large number of stage comedians were enraged against Percy Hammond because in a recent writing he had implied that clowns on the stage were often smutty. Said Zit's: "The comedians who feel hurt over the notice need not be named . . . dire threats are being heard...
Last Sunday the people of Manhattan were privileged to welcome a new newspaper-the New York Sunday Leader, price 5c. Those who wondered what the publishers (who also issue a theatrical snicker sheet called Zit's Weekly) intended to do with the paper, and whether they had not been slightly temerarious in their choice of a title, were informed by an editorial that "the Leader's aim is to print all news fearlessly, fairly and without malice." Underneath was a squib censoring Edward W. Browning, "Cinderella man," for "taking little girls in their teens to night clubs." Another...
...more interested in purely social gossip-the-ahem!- flittings of the stork and other such affairs. Zit's Weekly will keep you posted on matters town-topical with considerable frankness. And it runs a weekly column of " Greenwich Village Chatter " which every proprietor of a batik tearoom should read...