Word: agent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...issue of TIME for Nov. 23 appears a review of American Agent by Melvin H. Purvis. In the final paragraph of the review, on p. 94, it is reported, correctly I assume, that Mr. Purvis makes the following reference to George Ziegler...
...ballet are to give performances is Symphony Hall on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Shan-Kar is a truly remarkable dancer, and his interpretations combine beauty with a strange Oriental fascination. The musical accompaniments are not the least interesting part of his performances, and he (or rather his publicity agent) beasts that six hundred instruments are used...
Bank Night is a copyright scheme invented by a onetime Fox booking agent named Charles U. Yaeger, who leases it to theatres for from $5 to $50 a week depending on their size. What it amounts to is a clever evasion of state & municipal lottery laws whereby, by registering his name at a theatre, a patron becomes eligible to win a substantial prize if he is present at the theatre on "Bank Night"- when the prize is awarded to the holder of a lucky ticket after a drawing on the theatre stage. Since Bank Nights started in 1931, Inventor Yaeger...
Bunched at the first turn, the field strung out in the back stretch with Special Agent in front at the half mile, Sangreal at the three-quarter. Sangreal was still ahead coming into the stretch when Jockey Peters, moving up on Goldeneye, made his bid. For a split second, it looked like a camera finish. Then Sangreal weakened and Goldeneye drew away-to a six-length lead at the wire, with Sangreal second, Ariel Cross third...
Wild Bill takes a new trail, following one Lattimer (Charles Bickford) the sinister agent of some grafting Cabinet members who hope to sell the Cheyennes repeating rifles left over from the Civil War. Best sequence in the picture comes when Wild Bill has killed Lattimer and rounded up his gang. To pass the time until the cavalry arrives he starts a poker game. The man behind the bar, a cringing knave outstandingly played by Porter Hall finds a gun in a drawer. It takes him half the sequence to get nerve enough to shoot Bill Hickok in the back. Finally...