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Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion for 29 years, she edited it from a circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking...
...long belonged to George Gregory La Cava, a grizzled, balding, vigorous little man with an irrepressible fund of humor, a fierce integrity, and an unholy belligerence that has kept him in hot water most of his life. He made his first feature picture (Restless Wives, with Doris Kenyon and Edna May Oliver) 17 years ago at the Astoria Studios on Long Island...
Under the competent guidance of Mrs. Edna Skelton the comic began to amount to something. She wrote routines, made him study with a tutor until he got a high-school diploma, worked his salary up to $300 a week. Daughter of an undertaker she had just completed a course in embalming prior to her marriage. Skelton has never forgotten his friends' warnings that if he married her she could easily slit him open while he slept, pump him full of embalming fluid. Says he: "To this day I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat. . . . I have...
...present Edna Skelton's husband (whose adopted coat of arms is a redheaded skull and crossbones) is handsomely repaying his wife's loving care. Solidly bolted to the M.G.M. payroll for $1,500 weekly, he has finished Lady Be Good, is now making another musical, Panama Hattie. Although his oldtime medicine-show manners (telling stories at the top of his voice, howling, gesturing violently) occasionally get him out of line, Edna tempers his healthy conceit. Seldom without an unlighted cigar in his mouth or hand, he neither smokes nor drinks. He makes a rule of never answering...
...lived in gossip columnists' showcases; in Manhattan. Born Philip Manwaring, he was adopted by his mother's second husband, transportation Tycoon Morton F. Plant, who left him $15,000,000. Divorce from Cinemactress Constance Bennett cost him a $1,000,000 settlement, divorce from Big Game Huntress Edna Dunham a fifth as much, an auto crash with Showgirl Helene Jesmer $75,000. His third wife, ex-Showgirl Marjorie King, survives as his widow...