Phineas T.

Fri., January 25, 1935 - Lovely warm day -- even thawed.  Everybody out at noon.  Mr. Goodling took me to town after school.  To Lodge tonite.  I was to have Card Club next Fri. but Grandma is going to have the cancer under her arm treated Tues. so will have it later.
Sat., January 26, 1935 - Snowed a little.  Mom and I washed clothes.  Went down town tonite, bought a dish pan to use at school.  Ray came home about 10:00 and we talked until 12:30.
Sun., January 27, 1935 - Didn't go to S.S. - slept too late.  Ray and I teased each other all day.  Saw Wallace Beery in "The Mighty Barnum" at Wayne tonite.  We (Howard & I) saw Alma and John after the show and we had lunch together at the Palace.

As one would guess, "The Mighty Barnum" is about P. T. Barnum.  Wallace Beery must have looked a lot like the man, or else he just did a good job, but he played ol' P. T. four years earlier in "A Lady's Morals", a highly fictionalized biography of singer Jenny Lind.  I had to look up Ms. Lind and found the following, courtesy of wikipedia:

     Johanna Maria Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

     Lind became famous after her performance in Der Freischütz in Sweden in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.

     In 1850, Lind went to America at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852 where she had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next two decades, settling in England in 1855. From 1882, for some years, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London.

Oh, and P. T. stands for Phineas Taylor.