Word: autographing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autograph of Negro Bandmaster Cab Galloway ("ho-de-ho"'), 100 white girls and their tipsy escorts crowded about the platform of Memphis' Casino Ballroom. While they pawed his trousers, grabbed at his coat, Galloway, whose skin is much lighter than his players', referred to his "boys" as "Mr. Payne. Mr. Maxey. . . ." At the first "Mister" the crowd grumbled. At the second chairs began to fly. Off the stage scuttled resplendent Bandmaster Galloway and his frightened blacks. Up over the platform swarmed resentful whites, brawling, falling over each other until police cleared the Casino...
...Family}, sentimental comedy (Lady for a Day) and DeMillery (Cleopatra), often works in two or more pictures simultaneously. Married, he lives in a small house in Hollywood. His grandfather was a spiritualist, his father a country publisher. He studies navigation, owns and sails a schooner named Pegasus. Embarrassed by autograph seekers, he says: "If they guess who I am, I sign. If they guess someone else, I don't. Who do they think I am? Well, I'll just let you guess that...
When his talk was scheduled, the House committee thought that everything would run off smoothly as usual but it was not to be. They deemed that this would be a good chance to get the author of "Anthony Adverse" which is still the country's best-seller, to autograph the House Library's copy, and it would also be a courteous gesture. But, is and beheld, there was no copy to be found. The thing went along for a while and the House Committee confidently fait that some generous member of the House would make the contribution...
...fourth folio Shakespeares, Mary Baker Eddy's own copy of Science and Health, a Kelmscott Chaucer and a number of letters from Warren Gamaliel Harding and Thomas Jefferson. But the prize item was No. 264, an Italian leather frame holding a yellow sheet of paper, the original autograph manuscript of "The Star Spangled Banner...
...before Christmas Eve the President gave a holiday to his clerical staff. To each clerk and stenographer he presented a book, with his autograph on the flyleaf. Next day he entertained, first, the families of his chauffeurs and mechanics, then the families of the White House domestic staff. All children under 15 received their gifts from the President himself. That night, true to family tradition, he read A Christmas Carol aloud to kith & kin. Just before he put out the light to go to sleep he saw nine socks and stockings hanging over his big bedroom fireplace...