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...Chicago Defender, one of the largest U. S. colored newspapers, announced to 97,000 readers that next week it would publish a column by Marva Trotter Louis, wife of dead-pan Actor-Pugilist Joe Louis, which would "unfold all that's new ... for each dressy hours of the day and evening...
Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures...
...public likes fights or whether the public likes fights because the newspapers publicize them is one of the many riddles of pugilism. No riddle is the fact that while newspaper readers were last week absorbing the details of Negro Louis' romance with a dusky Chicago stenographer named Marva Trotter, whom he said he planned to marry the day after the fight, ticket sales approached $500,000. Two weeks before the customary time for this stage of their activities, reporters last week began canvassing celebrities for their opinions...
Engaged. Joe ("Brown Bomber") Louis, Negro heavyweight boxer; and one Marva Trotter, Chicago stenographer...