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...CRIMSON this year. After my unprecedented success--I say this with modesty--last season; I was approached by many syndicates with attractive propositions. And I was surely tempted to dip my pen in an inkpot of gold--to use a rather neat figure of speech--and join the tabloid ranks as an expert writer. But the tabloid writers type with only one finger, while two Forecast digits rattle the keys, yea even three or four in moments of excitement, so I realized I should feel out of place among them...
...Venice he was photographed feeding the pigeons outside of St. Mark's Cathedral. It was a drizzly morning and the Mayor, with Mrs. Walker, had just attended Mass. This was the occasion for scurrilous comments in the Manhattan press. Slyly wrote the correspondent of the tabloid Daily News: "When they left the Cathedral, the moving picture men wanted Walker to feed the pigeons, since pigeons show up so well in a film, and the Mayor obliged, although pigeon feeding wasn't his home specialty." Slyly wrote the editors, fearing that gum-chewers might miss the delicate...
...condition of the theatre that necessitated such ig- noble dramaturgy. He now has a more congenial role, but not, prob- ably, for long. Though cartoons of Dickens's narrative have been faith- fully staged, theatre-goers will find themselves bored by what is, after all, only the Pickwick tabloid Papers...
...Payne was not a child-hood aviator. He served in France during the War, but not in aviation. He embarked upon a field of work new to U. S., but it was not aviation. Mr. Payne took charge of the New York Daily News, the first of Manhattan's tabloid newspapers. Under his daring guidance it became an undreamed of success. Such a success that William Randolph Hearst engaged Mr. Payne to edit his New York tabloid, the Daily Mirror. The Mirror jumped amazingly in circulation. Last week Philip A. Payne jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in Mr. Hearst...
Today the American is weakening. The terrible tabloids have out-Hearsted Hearst and the morning New York field in screams and scandals is dominated by the Daily News. For a time (about 1921) Mr. Hearst fought back by publishing a tabloid insert in the American, which did not pay out. Then he resorted to a tabloid of his own (he has several in the U. S. now) and his Daily Mirror, picture paper, is on the make with about 412,000 copies sold every morning...