Hoaxer

Collier's Weekly, for Nov. 15, carried the record of one Harry L. Reichenbach, publicity hoaxer extraordinary. One read of "T. R. Zaun" and his pet lion, who registered at a Manhattan hotel just before the film Tarzan of the Apes took the screen; of "Achmet Ben" and party, who entered Manhattan on a "secret" search for "The Virgin of Stamboul"; of the children paid to stare into a store window at September Morn, upon her debut in this cold world, until Anthony Comstock came and raised the fuss that sold Miss Morn into the millions; of "Lot's Wife," sculped in salt to advertise The Queen of Sin and left lying about with a note of introduction from Sodom and Gomorrah. The police discovered her--and the hole in her back showing her wooden spine.