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...Yale, Harvard men have played a prominent part in their productions. Richard S. Aldrich '25, who with Alfred deLiagre scored a hit on Brosdway this year with "Three-Cornered Moon," was a member of the group while as undergraduate. Randall C. Burwell '24, of Boston, and J. J. Collier '24, and Richard H. L. Skinner '22, were all actors during the early years. In spite of warnings of critcs Bushnell Cheney started out with a Ford truck with a converted chasis which served as the stage and another smaller car for the lights. During their first year they toured Southern...
Engaged, Barren Gift Collier Jr., son of the car-card tycoon who last month sought a "moratorium" on $13,500,000 of debts (TIME, June 12); and Barbara May, Manhattan socialite...
Best known Collier company is Barren G. Collier, Inc. which he founded in Memphis at the age of 17. He was then in charge of the city's street lighting and he grew bored with staring at the wall space in trolley cars. Why not plaster the space with ballyhoo posters? Within a few years the boy was soliciting contracts from trolley owners all over the country. Today his company is the biggest card advertising firm in the world. It plasters thousands of vehicles with posters allegedly seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month. He heads...
...Collier has also enjoyed speeding past traffic cops in Manhattan. This he was enabled to do when John F. Hylan, then Mayor of New York, appointed him special deputy police commissioner, to launch an advertising campaign against street accidents. He invented Aunty J. Walker, a miniature policewoman with a night stick and fetching bonnet, and put her in the corner of his posters to admonish pedestrians to stop jay walking...
...founders of Collier's magazine...