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Names make news and, in some instances, names?even when not printed? make whole publications, notably the papers of the "show business," of Manhattan's Broadway. This intensely personal form of journalism was notably demonstrated last week by Zit's Theatrical Newspaper (commonly known as Zit's Weekly...
...month ago Editor Carl Florian ("Zit") Zittel devoted the entire back page of his paper to the story of a young Manhattan doctor whose showgirl fiancée had gone to Hollywood. The girl had broken her promise of marriage, refused to return the doctor's gift of jewelry, worth $18,000. Names were omitted but the girl was advised to "do the right thing and save a lot of unnecessary scandal and gossip . . . involving big men." Last week Zit's proudly announced that Catherine Moylan, formerly of the Ziegfeld Follies, had returned the jewelry to Dr. Morton I. Berson, that...
...aware that Editor Zittel is a nephew of Henry Morgenthau., Wilsonian U. S. Ambassador to Turkey. His mother was Bertha Morgenthau; his father Gustav Zittel, son of the late Professor Karl Alfred von Zittel, famed paleontologist. Zit is proud of his popularized nickname, has had it painted on the door of his automobile; wears in his lapel a diamond-studded...
Like Editor Sime Silverman of Variety (TIME, April 7), Zit began his journalistic career on the New York Morning Telegraph. In 1904 he started a vaudeville department in the Telegram, switched to the now-defunct Evening Mail where he originated the "racetrack chart" form of reviewing vaudeville bills...
...Zit was hired by Hearst's Journal. He was not aware until starting work that the Journal, like all other Hearstpapers, could get scarcely a line of theatrical advertising. Following the disastrous Iroquois Theatre fire in Chicago (1903) Hearst papers cartooned the showmen Marc Klaw and Abraham Lincoln Erlanger sitting in electric chairs. A Hearst boycott by virtually every important producer was the result. By sheer nerve and persistence Zit placated Erlanger, broke the boycott...