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Nine years ago in Chicago a vaudeville trouper named Myrtle Vail, who with her husband the late George Damerel was once a headliner in the big-time two-a-day, conceived the notion that her worries and woes would make good radio fare. At the, time, Myrtle was finding billings...
The show involved more theatrical hokum than Belasco cooked up in a life time; jiltings, blackmailings, fake marriages, et al. Last week reality caught up with it. Heavy with her third child by her third husband, Swimmer Peter Pick, Daughter Donna ran through her lines as Marge one day, died...
Gratifying as this was to President Little, it was no more than a temporary solace. For a universal commodity like soap has to be sold in heroic amounts to make money, and, unfortunately, there is little to choose between soaps. Hence competition is nerve-racking, with Procter & Gamble hanging on...
"If I ever run out of money," John Held, Jr., Adams House art advisor and creator of the famous comic-sheet flapper, "Marge," stated last night, "I'm going to sue the CRIMSON for libel. I have never been an editor on either the 'New Yorker' or the old 'Life...
He served on the staff of the old Life when it was in its heyday. His widely syndicated "Marge" satirized the hip-flask, raccoon-coat days of the late twenties. "Marge" died with the repeal of prohibition and the market crash, and Held obtained a position with the New Yorker...