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Last week the Club-Fellow & Washington Mirror, gossip monthly, reappeared on newsstands for the first time in two months. It had been sold by its founder-owner, Percival L. Harden, to Windsor Publishing Corp., owners of The Tatler & American Sketch, another gossip monthly, after two years, during which Mr. Harden was obliged by poor health to lease his property to an operating company (TIME. April 21). For 30 years prior to that. Publisher Harden had profited from chitchatting Club-Fellow...
...pistol against his breast, killed himself. His lawyer & friends gave as the reason his grief at having to relinquish "his old interests." Then was it the duty of newspapers to report on the life of Gossipist Harden a report which read much like an oldtime Harden-published gossip paragraph-married first Maude Sullivan, Chicago artists' model; won $10,000 for alienation of affections from his friend, William T. Hoops, who later wed Maude Sullivan Harden; married (second) Mabel Doris Mercer, chorus girl, who divorced him and later married (and was divorced from) Sebastian Spering Kresge. cheap-store tycoon; married...
...said to hold any vital importance for America or the world apparently have to be spiced with innumerable inconsequential and often silly stories. A public once satisfied by "news" from Winstead, Conn., about five-legged calves, trained brook trout, talking chickens, and green horses, must now have the gossip and idiocies of a whole world to satisfy its craving for bizarre trifles...
...months. Under its new owners it will become fatter, will be printed on heavier stock. Artist Alberto Vargas, who once painted the portraits of 25 glittering Ziegfeld showgirls in 25 days, will do the covers. Editor John C. Schemm hopes to have Club Fellow bursting with wit, humor, new gossip, sport. Douglas Brinkley. musicomedy skitster, cousin of Nell Brinkley who draws baby-faced beauties for Hearstpapers, will conduct a column of Broadway chitchat...
...city has a tattle magazine. Usually it is ambiguously guised as a compendium of smartset goings-on. In Philadelphia it is the Town Crier; in Boston the Bostonian. Indiscreet St. Louis socialites dread the Censor; incautious Kansas citizens the Independent. But the happy hunting grounds of the gossip-magazine publisher are Manhattan and Washington. With the announcement: last week that the Club Fellow & Washington Mirror had been bought by the owners of the Taller & American Sketch, it became apparent that Windsor Publishing Corp. had its field almost completely in control. Only the 52-year-old roué Town Topics (weekly) remained...