Word: zit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COLUMNIST MURDER-Lawrence Saunders-Farrar & Rinehart ($2).- No one has yet shot smooth-haired, Gossip-Monger Walter Winchell (New York Mirror's "On Broadway") though Zit's Theatrical Newspaper hinted more than six months ago he would be killed within six months (TIME, Nov. 3). Author "Lawrence Saunders" (Burton Davis) calls the victim of his murder-story "Tommy Twitchell," has him shot in a theatre telephone booth during a first-night performance, proceeds with his unraveling tale in a style that owes much to his hero's prototype. As a murder story The Columnist Murder...
...weekly colyumist on Zit's Theatrical Newspaper is its managing editor, Paul Sweinhart. Last week he wrote: "I've just heard . . . that the crack was made the other morning in a night club that a certain daily newspaper columnist will be bumped off within six months." Broadway's newswise readers associated this warning not with Colyumists Coolidge, Brisbane, Guinan, Broun or a dozen others, but instinctively thought first of Gossip-Colyumist Walter Winchell (TIME, June 17, 1929). New York has heard before the rumor of threats against his life. Not loath to dramatize his position, Colyumist Winchell...
...Zit was hired by Hearst's Journal. He was not aware until starting work that the Journal, like all other Hearstpapers, could get scarcely a line of theatrical advertising. Following the disastrous Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago (1903) Hearst papers cartooned the showmen Marc Klaw and Abraham Lincoln Erlanger sitting in electric chairs. A Hearst boycott by virtually every important producer was the result. By sheer nerve and persistence Zit placated Erlanger, broke the boycott...
...Zit's boast that in his 14 years on the Journal he made more than $3,000,000 profit for the paper in theatrical advertising; that he was responsible for the $5,000,000 contract between Hearst and Famous Players; for the $2,000,000 contract between Hearst's newsreel and Universal Film Corp.; for various successes of Hearst's Cinemactress Marion Davies. He left the Journal to start Zit's Weekly in 1921, with the gratitude of Publisher Hearst who continued to pay him $1,000 a week until two years...
...Zit has turned his hand at many a trick besides advertising. At one time he ran a factory for making papier maché, artificial flowers, etc., etc. He once organized 75 musical laborers into the "Royal Band of Rome to H. M. Victor Emanuel III," and directed them through a long engagement in a Harlem beer garden. Later he furnished the "Naval Reserve Band of Italy" to Luna Park. Of this band, 35 members could play. The other 40 were drilled to puff convincingly at plugged-up instruments...