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...hours before, Attorney General Cummings had conferred with President Roosevelt on setting up a Federal crime-fighting police staff, similar to the "National Scotland Yard" advocated by Col. Louis McHenry Howe in the Satevepost last week. The Roosevelt-Cummings plan, as announced in the Press last week, called for 1) expansion of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation into a Division, staffed with expert criminologists and lawyers to cooperate with the states in tracking down kidnappers and racketeers. 2) The organization of a mobile detachment under Special Assistant Keenan to concentrate on kidnapping cases. 3) Legislation to stop...
...Satevepost stories, nor because of Mervyn LeRoy's competent direction. It is entirely because of the presence in its cast of an old lady whose preposterous career makes the happy ending in Tugboat Annie seem comparatively realistic and whose flamboyant character makes the people she impersonates seem pallid reflections of herself. Seven years ago Marie Dressier was an impoverished "bit part" actress, nervously consulting astrologers as to the advisability of opening a Paris hotel in the hope that friends who remembered when she was a famed stage comedienne might patronize it enough to keep her comfortable...
That was in 1903, and for 20 years P. G. Wodehouse has been quite as well known in Collier's, Satevepost, Liberty and American Magazine as in the London Globe and Strand Magazine. He used to tear off hundreds of short stories a year, but now confines himself to seven or eight, with one or two full-length ones on the side. He "taps" (typewrites) methodically from 10 a. m. until one, rewriting everything at least three times to concentrate and sharpen the effervescent prolixity of his style. Like most humorists he folds inward in public but is seldom...
...advertising solicitor, circulation hustler, etc. etc.) to the day when he could address an audience of 8,000,000, Publisher Curtis never swum: a crusader's sword. Like himself his publications were simple, eminently respectable, ultra conservative, 100% American. It was Publisher Curtis' idea that the Satevepost, which he bought in 1897 for $1,000 when it had a circulation of 2,000, should preach the romance of honest toil. †Ladies' Home Journal, as nearly everyone knows, was originated and long edited by the publisher's first wife, Louisa Knapp Curtis. She had scoffed...
...cover of last week's Satevepost, for the first time appeared the portrait of a contributor, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...