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...Editor Harry Payne Burton goes Oct. 1 to succeed outgoing Editor Ray Long of Cosmopolitan. (Also it revives a rumor that Cosmopolitan may likewise reduce its price from 25 cents to 10 cents.) But the Physical Culture which was executed by Editor Burton had been conceived by Di rector Oursler. Highbrowed, spectacled. Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays...
...turn of this year Macfadden's Editorial Director Charles Fulton Oursler had worked astonishing changes in the magazine. The large sums usually spent on promotion and advertising were appropriated to buy good fiction, good illustrations, color printing. While the circulation of other magazines fell off during spring and summer, Physical Culture held its own (290,000). With the appearance last fortnight of the October issue, the price was slashed from 25? to 10?. The newsstand sale doubled...
...Clement Wood, TIME erred: it was another Macfadden biographer, one Fulton Oursler who was once a Macfadden employe, As to the "instinct" quotation. Publisher Macfadden errs. "Let nature be the guide." is what TIME said Mr. Wood said Mr. Macfadden said which is exactly what Mr. Wood...
...TRUE STORY OF BERNARR MACFADDEN-Fulton Oursler-Lewis Copeland...
...Author. How much academic education does it take to be a writer earning respectable money? Charles Fulton Oursler, now 36, finished all schooling with seventh grade grammar, in Baltimore. Thereafter he studied French literature, sleight-of-hand, farm implements, music. He earned money by the last three. Real success came with his play, The Spider, a Broadway smash in 1927, now playing in Budapest and Paris. His somewhat spiritualized view of Adah Menken is partly explained by his membership in the American Society for Psychic Research...