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Died. Mrs. Lucie Oelrichs Jay, 75, Manhattan socialite, relict of the late Col. William Jay (Civil War veteran, lawyer), daughter of the late Henry Oelrichs, general director of North German Lloyd Steamship Co. in the U. S.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. Famed for her Wartime anti-German activities, she campaigned...
Hermann Oelrichs, rich Manhattanite, six months ago offered $200 for the best gallows speech of a prisoner sentenced to death for taking a drink. Last week he said that he had received some 5,000 manuscripts, all "dull"; that the offer was "just a Roman holiday sort of joke," that...
* Part of this $750 was paid to Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis's Ladies Home Journal on an unfulfilled contract it had for Miss Oelrichs' story.
The business of ghostwriting, thoroughly discredited, is believed to be on the decline. But the Oelrichs incident (see above) gave wise Heywood Broun, columnist for the 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers, a chance to review some ghostly history:
Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs. Mr. Broun admits he has little sympathy for debutantes who get ghosts to help them confess their insincere boredom. He writes: "Surely in a proper finishing school there must be some course on 'How to bare your soul at fifty cents a word.' "