Word: markey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female sex appeal, and Miss Claire to Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort...
Amazed friends who had believed Miss Claire engaged to Scenario-writer Gene Markey, and who had taken seriously Mr. Gilbert's avowals against further matrimony, accepted the announced wedding at face value...
...BAND PLAYS DIXIE-Morris Markey-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Author Markey, the latest recruit to that swelling corps of young Manhattan newsgatherers who write disillusioned novels about wars, is not unaccomplished. His story has many an authentically stirring moment-a Yankee band challenging the Rebels with "Dixie" before the carnage at Fredericksburg; a sardonic Southern gallant shooting between his horse's ears on a midnight pursuit; the preparations for a lonely sabre duel; a bright-haired Richmond belle riding through magnolia-fragrant lanes and other pleasant spots. But the story itself is less satisfactory. The web of realism hangs loosely...
Married. Miss Helen Macfadden, 19, daughter of famed Bernarr Macfadden (publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Dream World, True Romances, etc.), sometime Follies girl, recently employed as a stenographer by her father at a salary of $4 per week; to Alexander Markey, 34, editor of several of the Macfadden sex magazines; in Manhattan...