Word: zit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Names make news and, in some instances, names?even when not printed? make whole publications, notably the papers of the "show business," of Manhattan's Broadway. This intensely personal form of journalism was notably demonstrated last week by Zit's Theatrical Newspaper (commonly known as Zit's Weekly...
...month ago Editor Carl Florian ("Zit") Zittel devoted the entire back page of his paper to the story of a young Manhattan doctor whose showgirl fiancée had gone to Hollywood. The girl had broken her promise of marriage, refused to return the doctor's gift of jewelry, worth $18,000. Names were omitted but the girl was advised to "do the right thing and save a lot of unnecessary scandal and gossip . . . involving big men." Last week Zit's proudly announced that Catherine Moylan, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, had returned the jewelry to Dr. Morton I. Berson, that...
...aware that Editor Zittel is a nephew of Henry Morgenthau., Wilsonian U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. His mother was Bertha Morgenthau; his father Gustav Zittel, son of the late Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel, famed paleontologist. Zit is proud of his popularized nickname, has had it painted on the door of his automobile; wears in his lapel a diamond-studded...
Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...
...three great organs of the theatrical world are The Billboard, Zit's Weekly and Variety, and the greatest of these is Variety. Into the laps of laymen Variety seldom finds its way. That is just as well, for to the untutored mind its language is almost unintelligible. Yet for professional mummers and mimes Variety is almost as necessary as mascara. Every week actors, cinemactors, pitchmen, tent show performers depend upon its fat pages for information regarding bookings, gossip, scandal, news. To such folk, for instance, the headline NO JOINT. NO TAKE INDOOR CIRCUS NETS 20 G'S means...