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He thought, considering the importance of the Regent Theatre and the salary he was paying to his press-agent, that the newspapers ought to occupy their pages solely with the metropolitan affairs of Edward Henry Machin. But the wretched Isabel had, as it were, got London by the throat.
He'd have been a stage-door Johnnie if he hadn't stubbed his toe and become a press-agent." "All right," said Banneker. "Now: I'll ask the stupid questions and you give the cutie answers."
It's horrid, I know, but it means bread and butter to me. That gentleman, my press-agent, evolved the present scheme a mysterious disappearance." She paused and looked at the others. Mr. Magee surveyed her narrowly. The youthful bloom of her cheek carried to him no story of grease paint; her unaffected manner was far from suggesting anything remotely connected with the stage. He wondered.
And for several evenings, actually at his feet, on the steps of the ivy-covered cottage, the disguised press-agent drew from the unworldly and unsuspecting scholar the simple story of his life.
There was the gigantic, lonely pine he knew well, and, yes he could just make it out there was his own ramshackle little pier, which stretched in undulating fashion, like a long-legged, wading caterpillar, from the abrupt shore-line of eroded coquina into deep water. He thought at first that this picture of his home was some new and delicate device put forth by his press-agent.
He was dark-skinned and big-nosed, with black eyebrows which met at its bridge and appeared to threaten an invasion of that structure. Little sensitive, expressive ripples ran over his face as he talked, and that was all the time. For Boyle was as voluble as a political press-agent.
You must capitalize your beauty and the publicity that attaches to your name." Mary Burton's lovely face grew paler, and, fearing interruption, the man rushed on. "I don't mean in the way the Sunday editor suggested. I mean the stage. I eke out my revenue in Park row with some press-agent work, and I happen to know what I'm talking about.
As a matter of fact, there was ground for Stuhk's apprehension. It was not all a matter of managerial imagination: Gideon was less himself. Physically there was nothing the matter with him; he could have passed his rigid insurance scrutiny as easily as he had done months before, when his life and health had been insured for a sum that made good copy for his press-agent.
"Then, second: Course the school has its advertising committee, but, Lord, nobody ever really works good nobody works well just for the love of it. The thing to do is to be practical and up-to-date, and hire a real paid press-agent for the Sunday School-some newspaper fellow who can give part of his time." "Sure, you bet!" said Chum Frink. "Think of the nice juicy bits he could get in!"
She cried, cried when she heard all you had been through. Oh, I made a great press-agent, kid. And the old major Oh, fuss! I can't tell a yarn nohow," grumbled Drake, stamping about at great length and vigorously using the lurid silk handkerchief. William C. Dagget was silent the silence of great, overwhelming joy. He was shivering. "And and Miss Desha?" he whispered at length.
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