Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patriotic Pearl White, this man-sized stunt was not even a good day's work. Rough-riding heroine of The Perils of Pauline, The Exploits of Elaine, other serial thrillers of the youthful U.S. cinema industry, she had weathered a thousand terrible fates. With daredevil Ruth Roland (Ruth of the Rockies, Love and the Law, etc.) she was co-queen of the U.S. sequel-cinema in the days when To Be Continued Next Week left an agonizing seven-day gap in the lives of thousands of silent-serial fans...
Several members of the Smoker Committee were seen hauling around the fire, and, when questioned, they readily admitted that they had arranged the whole affair as a publicity stunt to interest Yardlings...
...Cheap Stunt...
...David Levinson and Robert Minor were never kidnapped or beaten in New Mexico [TIME, April 7]. They kidnapped themselves, with the help of New Mexico Communists, as a cheap publicity stunt and did such a crude job as to make themselves ridiculous instead of Communist heroes...
When Federal agents nabbed Martin Durkin (a pioneer Dillinger) and his petite moll in a Pullman drawing room, Carson arranged with the Wabash Railway for a prairie train stop, rushed reporters and photographers to the secret rendezvous by plane (another pioneer Carson stunt). By the time the Durkin train reached Chicago the Herald & Examiner was on the street with four pages of Durkin pictures. But that was only a start for his Durkin scoop. In the excited hubbub at Union Station Carson and his kidnapping "cleanup squad" spirited Mrs. Durkin off the train, through labyrinthine passages to a waiting taxi...