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...striking suggestion was that of Constance Collier, 52, big, throaty English actress (The Firebrand, Our Betters, Serena Blandish, The Matriarch). Like many another talented person, notably Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin (now retired), Miss Collier suffers when dogs suffer.* Suggested she last week: "If vivisection is so necessary, why not experiment upon persons who break the laws instead of upon animals...
...seemed certain, Liberty blundered, tripped. Not in circulation, for that continued to mount, to a staggering 2,250,000 today. Liberty's popularity with the man-and-woman-on-the-street can scarcely be denied. But, even though 1929 was a boom year, its advertising fell off. Meanwhile, old Collier's came up from behind, went far ahead. The Pattersons?pére et fille?could easily afford to throw Liberty away and still live lavishly on Tribune-News money. And they might do if Liberty were not, with him, a point of honor. As public evidence of loyalty to Father...
...weekly. Each issue was devoted to one particular cultural subject?art, travel, letters. Foliowise, it also contained several loose-leaf rotogravure art reproductions. Then it became a semimonthly, then a monthly. Last September it fell into the capable hands of Hugh Anthony Leamy, a onetime associate editor of Collier...
...matter?essays, fiction, humor? consistent with the oldtime Mentor, but to deck out the material with capable, sometimes racy, illustration. Although the magazine's circulation reached 85,000, it became apparent that it would never pull in harness with its whopping big Crowell team-mates?Woman's Home Companion, Collier's, The Country Home (onetime Farm & Fireside), The American Magazine ? whose combined circulation is over...
...Francisco waiting to sail for Australia with Willie Collier and a road company of The Dictator when the 1906 earthquake occurred. Having spent the previous night away from home unexpectedly, he had nothing to put on but a full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds in the street he met Enrico Caruso and Diamond Jim Brady. They took back to New York the story that Barrymore had "dressed" for the earth quake. The commander of a local U. S. Army post recruited him to boss a gang of men in reconstruction work. He wrote home a harrowing account...