Word: quigley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Created in the image of The New Yorker, five years ago The Chicagoan first appeared, drawing its inspiration from the East, its pocket money from the West. Publisher was Martin Quigley, a hardworking, red-headed newspaper man who had made enough money out of cinema trade magazines (Motion Picture Almanac, Herald and Daily, Better Theatres, Hollywood Herald) to take up polo. First issues reminded readers not so much of The New Yorker as of an imitation of a college funnypaper imitating The New Yorker. But the magazine improved with age, reported the local drama, sport, social goings-on with...
...first big issue contained an article by Editor Peter Vischer of Polo (which Publisher Quigley used to own) on Chicago's exciting fortnight of international polo at Onwentsia (TIME, July 20). Other contributors were talent mustered from around the town. Arthur Meeker Jr., arty son of one of the best families, wrote rather harshly about having to stay in Illinois in the summertime. William C. Boyden, Harvardman, literary lawyer, did a comic piece about actors and actresses he had known. He used to be theatre critic for the earlier Chicagoan. Another old contributor-Durand Smith, Oxonian, Lake Forest socialite...
...busy little bee is Editor Peter Vischer of Polo, which Harper & Bros, bought from Publisher Martin Quigley last spring and dressed up for the International Matches (TIME, May 19). Last week Polo was sold again, to a group of Editor Vischer's polo-playing friends who agree with him 1) that Polo should be purely horsey, not social; 2) that smartly published horsiness will pay. Editor Vischer will now run Polo solo, assisted by a learned "advisory council" and with contributions as before from wise young Robert F. Kelley of the New York Times, famed Horse Artist Paul Brown...
...pictures houses) were Motion Picture News, Exhibitors Daily Review & Motion Picture News Today, and Film Daily. The new lineup of head men in the film industry (No. 1 still Adolph Zukor, No. 2 Harley L. Clarke instead of William Fox) made it seem wise and profitable for Publisher Quigley to acquire all but Film Daily and try to give the film industry something comparable to the steel industry's august Iron...
From the transaction, Publisher Quigley emerges as the only man solely to control the entire national trade press of a first-magnitude U. S. industry...