Up for auction a RARE! "20th Century Stars" Multi Signed VINTAGE Album Page. Signers are: Margaret Campbell, Peter Donald and Syd Weeks.

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Margaret Campbell (April

24, 1883 – June 27, 1939) was an American character actress in silent films. In her later years she was the secretary of

the Bahá'í Spiritual Assembly of

Los Angeles. Born

in St. Louis, Missouri,

Campbell had been the leading lady of the Bramhall

Players and appeared on Broadway in revivals of Hamlet and The Merchant of Venice during

the early 1910s. Later she followed her husband, German-born actor Josef Swickard, into films and was usually cast as rather

grand ladies. She retired from the screen at the advent of sound. In 1939,

Campbell was sexually assaulted and bludgeoned to death with a hammer. Her son,

Campbell McDonald, was the initial suspect. He was also suspected of having

bludgeoned to death a Russian dancer, Anya Sosoyeva, as well as having

assaulted the young actress Delia Bogard, who survived. He was later cleared of those

attacks when the actual murderer was captured by the Los Angeles police force.

Both attacks occurred on the Los Angeles City College campus.

Peter Donald (June

6, 1918 – April 20, 1979) was a British-born actor who worked in American radio

and television. He has been called "one of radio's great

dialecticians." Donald

was born in Bristol, England, in 1918. His father (a comedian) and mother (a

singer) were performers in Vaudeville. He graduated from the Professional Children's

School in New York in 1936. Donald

first appeared on radio in 1927, playing Tiny Tim in

a production of A Christmas Carol.  At age 11, he was the announcer

for Uncle Olie and His Kne-Mel Gang on CBS.[4] He became an announcer on CBS in

1931. He

was famed as the character of Ajax Cassidy on Fred Allen's radio show, the Irishman who continually

complained that he was "not long for this world." In addition to his

long run on "Allen's Alley," Donald was a regular on Radio

Reader's Digest, Stage Door Canteen, and We, the People. He

was also the host during the 1940s on County Fair and read the jokes for radio's

joke-telling panel program, Can You Top This? In

1952, Donald served as host of Don McNeill's Breakfast

Club for six weeks while McNeill was away. Donald appeared

on Broadway in Bitter

Sweet (1929–1930) and Give Me Yesterday (1931). Donald

was the host of two early television series, The Ad-Libbers (1951) and Masquerade Party (1954–1956), and he made numerous TV

guest appearances as a comedian (The Colgate Comedy Hour, The NBC Comedy Hour)

and panelist (Pantomime Quiz, What's My Line?, To Tell the Truth). His TV appearances as an actor

included Prize Performance (1950) and ABC Showcase (1950).

He appeared on The Tonight

Show Starring Johnny Carson in 1962, and one of his last TV

appearances was on the daytime panel show Get the Message in

1964. In the early 1950s, he lived in Manhattan on the south side of 58th Street between 7th Avenue and Broadway. He hosted

the Texaco Star Theater on

the NBC television network on September 14, 1948. At the

show's closing he announced that Milton Berle would commence hosting on the next week's

show & Berle momentarily appears. In addition to Donald's delightful

stories, the show's highlight is Sid Caesar's tour de force performance of his WWII bombing

parody skit from the 1946 film Tars and Spars.