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Nearly every newspaper in Manhattan printed an editorial of pity for little Benita Bischoff. But Mr. & Mrs. Ogden Reid's Herald Tribune ventured a trifle farther. Said their editorial...
...morning that the Herald Tribune's editorial appeared, as if in reply the Daily News's editorial writer appraised the Gordon murder and Bischoff suicide as "not so raw material for a tremendous play or novel."* And the News said...
...Benita Bischoff killed herself, President Hoover vetoed the Muscle Shoals bill. As we see it, that wasn't much of a story...
Next day Benita was buried in Philadelphia. The sensation-mongers of the Press followed her even to the grave. The girl's father, John E. C. Bischoff, said that reporters had tried to bribe gravediggers to disinter the body, in the belief that the girl's diary had been buried with...
...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...