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Fresh Every Hour / Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child.

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A fast-paced comic tale follows Jimmy Martin, a press agent at a seaside amusement park whose exuberant imagination and shameless tactics produce a series of publicity capers. His romantic infatuation with an aspiring actress from a small town complicates schemes to stage spectacles, serial film stunts, and promotional tricks, exposing the gap between theatrical ambition and managerial reality. Episodes blend slapstick misadventure, satirical portraits of show business, and the protagonist’s resilient optimism, arranged as linked vignettes that lampoon publicity, celebrity-making, and theatrical pretension.

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Title: Fresh Every Hour

Author: John Peter Toohey

Release date: August 6, 2018 [eBook #57645]

Language: English

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Fresh
Every
Hour

FRESH
EVERY HOUR

DETAILING the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of one Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child.

By JOHN PETER TOOHEY


BONI AND LIVERIGHT
Publishers :: New York

FRESH EVERY HOUR

Copyright, 1922, by
Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America

TO
MY MOTHER

Fresh
Every
Hour

FRESH EVERY HOUR