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Roland Butler, Publicity director of the Ringling and Barnum & Bailey circus sent exclusive newspaper stories and illustrations submitted for publication prior to their performances.

I discovered an interesting email in my inbox following the disclosure of The Esperanto League story reported in yesterday’s liquid soap. The email was from a Mr George Roper from New York who seemed to write in riddles, so much so, that at first I thought it was a hoax email. However, he wrote again…

Thanks to an email from Di Silkin this morning in which she recounts an incident that she recalls from her days working for a London PR consultancy in the 1960s. The agency was hired by the Esperanto League to help spread the ‘universal language’ that had so far failed to catch on with quite the…

I recently found some more documentation on some of the first commerical PR stunts of the 1920s, (lest we forget the poster for Decantle, the great exotic dancer!). One of the largest horticultural centres, Lachret Howes, in Montana decided to pay their respects to the President on his visit to Montana by creating the first…

The Sons of Barnum blog on the Media Guardian Organ Grinder is throwing up some interesting comments. Howard Strickling…When a drunken Clark Gable hit and killed a pedestrian near Hollywood Boulevard, Howard Strickling sent Gable into hiding and then conspired with the local D.A. to have a minor executive take the rap in return for…

Thanks to Martin Neal from Lincoln who has sent me an unlikely story about a friend of his grandfather’s called John Hayes, who did some rudimentary PR more than fifty years ago. To promote the 1951 European tour of the Hungarian fencing master Etterem, the former trainer of the Hungarian National Fencing Team, Hayes created…