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Frisco. Whatever effect his opinions might have on the color of the World's columns, voluntary or involuntary, it was agreed that in all the technicalities of the job Renaud was well equipped to succeed his vociferous predecessor...
...California, following his graduation from Leland Stanford University in 1903, that Renaud got his early newspaper training. For nine years he worked on San Francisco dailies, becoming dramatic critic for the Bulletin and the Chronicle. In 1912 he went to New York with a letter of introduction from Will Irwin and got a job on the oldtime Globe...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...
...Renaud knows his theatre, a sphere which the World has long sought to reflect with brilliance. Fifteen years ago, while freelancing in .New York, he wrote an article for Harper's on the thesis that there were "Too Many Theaters." In gathering his material he had occasion to interview E. F. Albee, famed theatrical operator. The upshot of their talk was that Renaud went to Philadelphia for a while as manager of the Chestnut Street Opera House. He tried his hand at writing plays. Several were produced, including Betty Behave (Jane Cowl...
...Renaud went back to newspaper work, on the copy desk of the Tribune. His rise was step by step-head of the desk, telegraph editor, news editor, night editor, assistant managing editor. Ten years later he went to the Evening Post as managing editor...