Word: morosco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Oliver Morosco, owner of Morosco Theatres (Manhattan, Los Angeles), producer (Peg O' My Heart, Bird of Paradise) ; and Helen McRuer, legitim-actress; in San Francisco...
...Oliver Morosco, Manhattan theatre man, found himself last week on the unpleasant end of a court judgment for $173,529. In 1911 he produced The Bird of Paradise by Richard Walton Tully of Sierra Madre, Cal. In 1912 one Grace A. Fendler sued Producer Morosco and Playwright Tully, charged that the play had been plagiarized from her In Hawaii. Last week she won her case in the New York State Supreme Court. Heavy as was Producer Morosco's lot, Playwright Tully's was worse. The damages awarded against him totaled...
...movies, her mother went along, let her change her name to Griffith. Now Corinne Griffith makes $500,000 a year and is said to have the most beautiful back in the world. She lives in an English house in Beverly Hills decorated in French & Italian styles. Married to Walter Morosco, son of famed Oliver Morosco, she collects jewels, is said to own the biggest existing cabuchon ruby, reads with a magnifying glass the complete works of Poet Alfred Noyes in an edition one inch square, has a prize lily garden, and plays golf badly. Famed for her roles in Outcast...
Engaged. Oliver Morosco, of Manhattan, theatrical producer; to Helen McRuer, of Phoenix, Ariz., Morosco actress...
...Grace A. Fendler the Supreme Court in Manhattan last week awarded $781,891.10, royalties due her from The Bird of Paradise, alleged plagiarism of her play In Hawaii. Oliver Morosco, producer, Richard Walton Tully, writer, were the defendants. Morosco has recently recovered from bankruptcy, Tully's resources are undetermined. Since 1914, birthyear of the play, Author Fendler has not received a cent, is not sure she ever will...