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COLLEEN MOORE - AUTOGRAPH 01/29/1944 CO-SIGNED BY: JUNE COLLYER, JOAN WINTERS, FAITH STEWART VAN BUREN, IRV KUPCINET, LOUELLA O. PARSONS, SALLY EILERS, HOWIE MAYER, EDWARD "BIG ED" QUIGLEY, JOHN DRURY, MARION NEVILLE (DRURY), PATRICIA "PRINCESS PAT" DOHERTY, NATHAN "NATE" GROSS, FANNY BUTCHER, MAISIE WARD, WELTHY HONSINGER FISHER, DOROTHY (DOROTHY SELMA RICHARDSON KISSLING) LANGLEY, GEORGE FORT MILTON, JR., NOEL (MARY NOEL) STREATFEILD, MRS. WILLIAMS P. STREET, PAULINE GALLAGHER, ADELINE FITZGERALD, MARY DOUGHERTY, G. RAY SCHAEFFER, HELEN C. WELLS, J.H. GIBSON, DAVID H. APPEL, DORSEY MCCARTHY - HFSID 29574COLLEEN MOORE, LOUELLA PARSONS and MANY OTHERSGuest roster from a 1944 Chicago book signing by gossip columnist Parsons, signed by 33
entertainment/ media celebrities and distinguished authorsSignatures:
"Colleen Moore", "Louella Parsons", "Mrs. William P. Street", "Howie Mayer",
"Pauline Gallagher", "and her stooge/Irv Kupcinet", "Faith Stewart Van Buren", "Joan Winters
Bering", "Eddie Quigley", "John Drury", "Adeline Fitzgerald", "June Collyer Erwin",
"Marion
Neville", "Mary Doherty", "G. Ray Schaeffer", "Helen C. Wells", 'J. H. Gibson", "Sally Eilers
Barney", "Patricia Dougherty", "Nate Gross/'Town Tattler'", "Dorsey McCarthy", "Fanny
Butcher", "David H. Appel", "Maisie Ward Sheed", and on verso
"Toward World
Citizenship/Yours in appreciation/Welthy Honsinger Fisher", "Sincerely/Dorothy Langley", "With
appreciation/George Fort Milton/May 4, 1944", "Noel Streatfeild/1946", 1 page (front and
verso), 7½x11¼. [Chicago], 1944 January 29.
In all 33 signatures, five unidentified.
Rose
Oller Harbaugh, for many years the head of the book department at Chicago's Marshall
Field Department Store, was noted for her well attended book signings, and kept a guest
roster of authors and other distinguished attendees. The signers on the front of this sheet
attended a luncheon and autograph session for Louella Parsons, who had just written The
Gay Illiterate. She wrote about this event in her syndicated column, reporting that she had
signed 1,100 copies. The signers on verso were not attendees at the Parsons signing, but
probably present for similar events in their honor.
COLLEEN MOORE (
1900-1988) was
the
quintessential "flapper" of the 1920s in silent and early talking films (as in
It Must Be
Love,
Ella Cinders, both 1926). Playing against type in her last starring role, she portrayed
Hester Prynne in
The Scarlet Letter (1934). Moore returned to the screen in 1961, playing a
supporting role in a remake of one of her most memorable screen roles, 1933's
The Power
and the Glory. A canny investor, Moore authored three books, including
How Women Can
Make Money in the Stock Market.
LOUELLA PARSONS (
1880-1972) began
writing the
first movie column for the "Chicago Record-Herald" in 1914. After moving to Los Angeles,
she worked for William Randolph Hearst's news organization, and her column appeared in
some 400 newspapers.
Parsons, whose chief rival was Hedda Hopper, became the most
feared woman in Hollywood, wielding her power for some 40 years. She knew all the secrets,
and
her approval (or disapproval) could make or destroy an actor's career.
HOWIE
MAYER (1904-1985) was a stringer for the Chicago Evening American when he earned his
journalistic reputation covering the famous Loeb/Leopold murder trial. He left the newspaper
in 1929 to co-found what soon became a nationally prominent public relations firm of Mayer
and O'Brien. His duties included nine years managing the Academy Awards ceremony.
IRVING KUPCINET (
1912-2003) was drafted out of college to the Philadelphia Eagles, but
a shoulder injury ended his career and shunted him into sports writing. He was hired by the
Chicago Daily Times (now the
Chicago Sun-Times) in 1935 and given his own gossip
column in 1943.
This column, renamed Kup's Column in 1948, was a fixture in the paper
until his death in 2003. He gained a wider audience when he launched his own talk show in
1952 and replaced Jack Paar on
The Tonight Show in 1957. Another incarnation of his show,
The Irv Kupcinet Show, ran from 1962 to 1971.
FAITH STEWART VAN BUREN was
President of the Chicago-based literary association, The Friends of American Writers, which
gives annual awards for fiction and nonfiction writing in several categories. Actress
JOAN
WINTERS (1907-2001) was seen in the Broadway play
Bad Girl (1930) and the film
Variety
Jubilee (1933). In 1932, she married Frank Bering, longtime manager of Chicago's Hotel
Sherman.
EDWARD QUIGLEY (1909-1988), Democratic leader of Chicago's 27th Ward,
spent 50 years inspecting sewers and water meters for Chicago and Cook County before
becoming Sewer Commissioner under Mayors Richard E. Daley and Jane Byrne
(1963-1983). The dapper Quigley may have been the model for "Jimmy Flannery," the
beloved hero of Robert Campbell's series of mystery novels. Flannery was also a sewer
inspector and Democratic leader of Chicago's 27th ward. A Quigley quote, given to Chicago
columnist Mike Royko, sounds just like Flannery. Asked if he ever walked the sewers, Quigley
replied, "No, but many a time I lifted a lid to see if they were flowing."
JOHN DRURY
(1898-1972) was a reporter and columnist for the Chicago Daily News from 1924 to 1944,
and also authored tour guides for Chicago. In 1944, the year of this signature, he received a
fellowship from the University of Minnesota to write
Old Chicago Houses. He left the Daily
News to become a freelance writer.
MARION NEVILLE (DRURY), 1902-1967, was on the
editorial staff of the American Library Association
Booklist from 1925 to 1930. Thereafter
she wrote for various Chicago newspapers and became an amateur painter, exhibited in several
local shows.
ADELINE FITZGERALD was a feature writer for the Chicago Sun Times and
Chicago Herald American.
JUNE COLLYER (1904-1968) appeared in late silent and early
talking films from
East Side, West Side (1927) to
A Face in the Crowd (1936).
In 1931 she
married fellow actor Stu Erwin, and co-starred with him (as his TV wife) on The Stu
Erwin Show (1950-1955). SALLY EILERS (1908-1978) was having lunch with former
drama school classmate Carole Lombard when she was "discovered" by producer Mack
Sennett.
Prominent movie roles followed, including Buster Keaton's Sailor's Holiday
(1929), Oscar-winning Bad Girl (1931), and Will Rogers' State Fair (1933). She made
several Westerns with her first husband, Hoot Gibson. She was married to Howard Barney
from 1943 to 1946, and has signed here with that name. She made her last film,
Stage to
Tuscon, in 1950.
PATRICIA DOUGHERTY, was a
society columnist for the Chicago
Evening American from the 1920s through the 1940s, writing
under the by-line "Princess
Pat." NATE GROSS started out as a
Chicago crime reporter, before moving to a general
news and society column, "The Town Tattler," at the Herald American. Gross
claimed to
have negotiated a deal for the surrender of famed gangster John Dillinger, which became
moot when the FBI slew Dillinger in a gun battle outside a Chicago theater. Nate Gross and
Irv Kupcinet were longtime journalistic rivals.
FANNY BUTCHER (1888-1987) wrote for
the Chicago Tribune for 50 years (1913-1963). After covering everything from crime to
fashion, she became the paper's chief literary critic in 1923, holding that position for four
decades. A New Yorker cartoon of the 1940s has a bookstore clerk telling a customer that the
book she is holding was liked by Eleanor Roosevelt and by Fanny Butcher, an indication of
her national reputation. Englishwoman
MAISIE WARD (1889-1975) and her husband,
Frank Sheed,
were
leaders of the Catholic Evidence Guild, whose mission was to train
Catholic lay persons to win converts to the faith. They
founded their own publishing house,
which publishing many books of theology, including translations of European writers.
Maisie Ward was
also a biographer; her subjects included G. K. Chesterton and Robert
Browning.
WELTHY HONSINGER FISHER (1879-1980), the wife of a Methodist
missionary, opened one of the first schools for women in China. Later, after studying the
educational systems of many nations, she
founded World Education, to promote worldwide
literacy and especially the education of women. At the urging of Mohandas Gandhi, a
personal friend, she moved to India and established Literacy House. Her teaching methods
influenced the development of India's village literacy program, and in 1980 she became
the
only US citizen honored on an Indian postage stamp. DOROTHY LANGLEY was the
pen name of Dorothy Richardson Kissling (1904-1969), who published
poems and book
reviews under her legal name but was best known for her
three novels written as Langley:
Swamp Angel (1944),
Dark Medallion (a Friends of American Writers award winner, 1945),
and
Mr. Bremble's Buttons (1947). She also wrote a popular children's book,
The Hooglies
and Alexander (1948).
GEORGE FORT MILTON, JR. (1894-1985), the son and namesake
of Tennessee publisher and Democratic Party leader George Fort Milton and women's
suffrage leader Abby Crawford Milton,
wrote seven books on American history between
1930 and 1945, most centered on the prelude and aftermath of the Civil War. In 1944, he
published The Uses of Presidential Power. English author
NOEL STREATFEILD
(1895-1986) wrote 16 adult novels, 26 children's books, and 6 works of non-fiction. While
her adult novels were well received and one -
Aunt Clara - was made into a 1952 movie, it was
her prize winning children's books which cemented her reputation, especially
Ballet Shoes
(1936) and
The Circus is Coming (1939). Her 10 prior years as a stage actress had a notable
influence on her books. No information is presently available on the remaining signers, but
they certainly merit further research. Lightly toned, especially around edges. Page has been torn
from album on right and has pinholes from binding. Otherwise, fine condition.
See more material from these signers:COLLEEN MOORE DORSEY MCCARTHY DAVID H. APPEL J.H. GIBSON HELEN C. WELLS G. RAY SCHAEFFER MARY DOUGHERTY ADELINE FITZGERALD PAULINE GALLAGHER MRS. WILLIAMS P. STREET NOEL STREATFEILD GEORGE FORT MILTON, JR. DOROTHY LANGLEY WELTHY HONSINGER FISHER MAISIE WARD FANNY BUTCHER NATHAN GROSS PATRICIA DOHERTY MARION NEVILLE (DRURY) JOHN DRURY EDWARD QUIGLEY HOWIE MAYER SALLY EILERS LOUELLA O. PARSONS IRV KUPCINET FAITH STEWART VAN BUREN JOAN WINTERS JUNE COLLYER
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