Word: weitzenkorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old murder story as material for a serial play Sin Doesn't Pay. Glory Penbrook (Helen MacKeller) is the ex-murderess who commits suicide when the consequences of her grey past, horribly disinterred, menace her daughter's marriage. Even without the punch lines of Louis Weitzenkorn's dialog and its alien back-ground the situation is strong enough to be good entertainment for those who missed the original...
...Louis WEITZENKORN...
...Reader Weitzenkorn, onetime editor of Bernarr Macfadden's late pornoGraphic, is sophisticated. In TIME'S judgment, not everyone is aware of what he implies : that Singer Robeson, self-respecting, would never dream of having to do with blatant Negrophile Cunard. Fact remains, Singer Robeson did make the denial as reported...
...Many a Manhattan playgoer was reminded by the Bischoff girl's suicide of the plot of Five Star Final, the year's newspaper melodrama on Broadway. In that play, written in anger and bitterness by Louis Weitzenkorn (onetime managing editor of Macfadden's Evening Graphic), the managing editor of a New York tabloid undertakes to find out what has become of a famed courtesan of 20 years back, who had been acquitted of murder. The newshawks find her respectably married. Their screeching story breaks on the wedding day of the woman's daughter. Grief-stricken...
Throughout these kinetic happenings (the play uses three revolving stages, 27 scenes) Editor Byron joins Playwright Louis Weitzenkorn in excoriating his profession, justifying his actions on the grounds that "idealism won't put a patch on your pants. I'm one newspaperman who's going to have a comfortable old age." But when he learns of the tragedy his paper has wrought, he tells his publisher what he thinks of him, stalks out of the office with a bitter laugh at himself...