Variety (Nov 1938)

69 VARIETY LITERATI Wednesday, November 2, 1938 Canby Sells Sat. Beylew HoTdlngs Financial interest of Henry Seidel Canby in the Saturday Review of Literature has been disposed of by him, with Noble A. Cathcart and George Stevens now the sole two stockholders. Under the altered man- agement set-up of the literary week- ly, Stevens replaces Canby as v.p. and Cathcart continues as prez and treasurer. Canby continues as a contributing editor, along with William Rose Benet and Christopher Morley. Ste- vens is editor, with Amy Lovenian associate ed. Not generally remembered that the first prez of the Saturday Review was Henry S. Luce, the Time-Life- Fortune emir. That was when Canby, editor of the old New York Evening Post's book section, the Literary Re- view, decided to break away in 1924 and start a literary weekly. The new Saturday Review of Lit- erture was quartered with Time in an old converted brewery, subse- quently moving to its present loca- tion- Another fledgling weekly in the same building was the New Yorker. Sitbclc interest of Luce and his as- sociates in the Saturday Review was acquired two years late by Canby's group. Specific incident whicl. led to the split was that Time, although its editorial offices were in New York, ■was published in Cleveland. Plane carrying editorial matter for a com- plete issue of the Saturday Review crashed, in flames, and the literary weekly nearly missed that issue. Upon Canby's insistence that the Sat- urday Review be published in New York, Luce' sold him Time's interest, to publish it where he pleased. Disposal of Canby's interest in the mag involves no changes in policy. Authors Guild's Meeting; Members of the coTmcil to be elected at the annual meeting of the Authors Guild this afternoon (Wednesday) at the Midston hotel, N. Y., include Sherwood Anderson, Silas Bent, Latrobe Carroll, Octavus Roy Cohen, Mary Field. Parton, Na- thaniel Peffer, Carl Sandburg, Ly- man Beecher Stowe, John W. Van- dercook and Thyra Samter Winslow. Anderson, Bent, Stowe and Vander- cook are incumbent members. Coun- cil numbers 30 members; 10 of whom _.are elected each year. : Henrik Wlllem van-^ Loon, Guild president, will' give. his annual re- port^ atid! Khowles Ehltifcih, Radio Writers Guild ylce-pirez, and;Sidney Fleischer, film-sales Arbitier, will als.o " speak. Among ;the 'subjects which the Guild has been, studying for some time and winch may be con- sidered at the- meeting are various •grievances', against magaisine pub- lishers, such as title changes without pertnission of the author, changes in scripts, delay in reporting and ac- ceptance of scripts, delay In payment, question of purchase-of serial rights only or inclusion of- all rights,' ques- tion of when- .911; order can . be con- sidered an actual order, how definite a commitrtient c'an be'obtained for an order talked over with ah editor, re- jecting of articles after extensive changes haVe been niade, ideas turned down-'by editors and later written for the; same magazine by oiher writers, payment of expenses for. research ahd" travel over and above payment for articles. mer a story in another daily con- nected Frayne and Bill Farnsworth with Mike Jacobs' fight promotions, they having previously represented Mrs. W. R. Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, which received a per- centage of the gate up to a year, or so, ago. Farnsworth, former sports columnist of the Journal, is now vice-president of the 20th Century Sporting Club, which is Jacobs' in- corporated fight outfit. Frayne has also joined up with the club, which headquarters at the Hippodrome. At the time of the alleged expose, Frayne turned in his resignation, which was refused. Since then, Joseph P. Connolly, Hearst's King Features Syndicate head, was ap- pointed head of all the publisher's dailies. Known that Connolly in against any of the staff being con- nected with professional promoters, which probably prompted Frayne to again resign. Understood, however, that the Journal bought his term con- tract, paying off in full. .Kase, who started in Brooklyn, has been one of the hest inside men on the Journal and was taken off base- ball last season and assigned to the sports office. James Cannon, an- other Journal sports department by-liner, has been let out, with severance pay reported at $945. Ed B. Cochrane, of the Chicago Herald- Examiner, who is in general charge of all Hearst sports departments, was called to New York just prior to the Journal changes. Classic Reprints Martin Sugar, prominent figure in the book biz for some years, Is the head of a new book publishing or- ganization. Regency House. With John V. Deegan and Charles J. Miller as his associates. Sugar's plans are republication at nominal prices of classics previously sold for fancy sums. First on the Regency House list will be Arthur Machen's 'Memoirs of Ca- sanova«' with illustrations by Mahlon Blaine. Temporary offices opened by Regency House in New Yox'k, with new company to get permanently established soon. Halliburton Sailing Richard Halliburton's taste for adventure acquires a new spice shortly when the adventurer-writer leaves Hongkong in a Chinese junk, for San Francisco. Halliburton, who left Frisco for the Chinese city, Sept. 23, intends starting his trip Christmas Day, accompanied by sev- eral Dartmouth and Harvard stu- dents for hiis crew. Bell S3rndicate has contracted with Halliburton for him to write a series of 15 articles dealing with his experiences on the trip and has al- ready sold them to several dailies. Halliburton's voyage is reported also tied up with the Frisco Fair. Re- port from the Coast that Hallibur- ton had cancelled his trip is denied by his publisliers. Bobbs-Merrill, and the syndicate. Annenberi:-Stern Fend Spreads That the bitter feud between J. David Stern, publisher of the Demo- cratic Philly Record, and Moe An- nenberg, publisher of the Republi- can Jnquirer, had spread from poli- tics to the business office of the two papers was indicated this week. An- nenberg refused to sit down with reps of the- Newsboys' Union and other papers, reputedly because Dr. Luther Harr, treasurer of the Rec- ord, was there riepresenting. Stern. Although Annenberg actually made no mention • of the Record at the confab with the Newsboys' organi- zation, merely stating that he would •rather speak foj* himself while not in the presence of other publishers, his action was generally attributed to his feud with the rival morning daily. On the political front, the In- quirer has been given- large front- page space to charges against Albert M. Greenfield, bigwig Democrat ahd Record stockholder, while the He'c- ord has been getting hunk by play- ing up results of investigations of Annenberg's connections with gam- bling houses. through his Nation- wide News Service, horse-race info wire. 175G Libel Suit vs. MacFadden Notice of a $175,000 libel suit against MacFadden Publications, Inc., Chilton Co.," and Jieunes A. Rowan (magazine writer),- brought by Lucien Koch, former president and director of Commonwealth College, Mena, Ark., and now .an executive in the Department of Labor at Wash' ington, has been filed with the SeC' retary of State in Albany by the U. S. District Court. Koch insti- tufed the action as the result of an article about Commonwealth College, which. appeared in a MacFadden publication Dec. 9, 1936. ■ The article, authored by Rowan, allegedly charged XhsA the college was a, center for Communistic teachr ing and that immorality among its students was condoned by college authorities. Ease Vice Frayne On Journal Max Kase, former baseball re- porter, is now sports editor of the N. Y. Journal-American, having suc- ceeded Ed Frayne. During the sum- More Locality Mags New York City locality publica- tions continue to increase in num- ber, with considerable impetus to be given the expansion by Susan F. Hunter. Success of her smart locality mag, Gramercy Life, detail- ing the activities in the Gramercy Park section, is prompting her to put' out five additional ones along the same lines—Murray Hill Life, 'Washington Square Life, Sutton Place Life, Lenox Hill Life and Fifth Avenue Life.' Six locality publications, all to be issued weekly, will appear, under the aegis of New York Magazines, which Miss Hunter heads. ' New quarters in the Gramery Park section will serve as publishing headquarters for the six periodicals. Ace Buys Camera Fan Ma; Rights to Everyday Photography mag, hobby periodical, have been ac- quired by Ace Magazines from Haig- Kostka Publications, with the mag to be revived under the Ace banner around the beginning of the new year. Thomas Blanchard, who edited the periodical up till the time of its suspension in June, has joined Ace to again edit the publication. Everyday Photography will be the first periodical of its type published by Mrs. A. A. Wyn, Who heads the various groups of mags under Ace Magazines. Majority of the Wyn publications are fiction pulps. 3 World's Fair Publications New York World's Fair will have three publications,, according to terms of an agreement signed be- tween fair management and Thomas R. Gardiner. There will bfe the Official Daily Program, Official Guide, published weekly, and Official Souvenir Book. Gardiner, who helps get out the N. Y. State Journal of Medicine and the Medical Directory of New Jersey and Connecticut, has formed a sepa- rate organization to publish the World's Fair publications. Called Exposition Publications, with Gar- diner at its head. Guild's St. Louis Pact The Post-Dispatch (Pulitzer) and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild have signed an 18-month contract. Mini- mums run $30 a week for the first year, $40 the second year, $45 the third year and $50 the fourth year. The five-day, 40-hour' week, which has been in effect, is continued in the contract. Severance pay, established for the first 'timfe, ranges from two weeks' pay for less than a year's service, to 26 week's pay after 15 years of service. Only in the case of dismis- als for 'gross breach of trust' is the severance pay avoided. Queens Press Ass'n Affain The Queens (N. Y.) Borough Newspapermen's Association, in- active for the past four or five years, may function again as the result of the .World's Fair scheduled for that borough next year. Local scribes are anxious to be organized for the exposition. Suggestion has been made that they acquire a headquarters close by the fair grounds. Macfadden Buys Whodunit Mae Macfadden Publications has bought American Detective Cases mag from the Attvision Publishing Co., and will combine in with True Detective Mys- teries. Combo probably goes into effect with .the December issue. Title- of American Detective will be worlced in with the Macfadden monthly for a time, and, it's under- stood, later dropped. In the purchase, Macfadden takes only the title and subscription list and none of the personnel. Robert Borden, editor of American Detec- tive, was out previous to the sale. Editor of True Detective Mysteries is John Shuttleworth, who also edits Master Detective Magazine for Mac- fadden. LITERATI OBITS THIS WEEK Mitchell McClain Stockton,. 71, former general manager of the Ashe- viUe (N. C.) Citizen' and for many years identified with printing and advertising enterprises, died in At- lanta, Oct. 20, after an illness of two years. He was a native of Orlando, Fla., and one of the oldest members of the International Typographical Union in the nation. He had served on the Atlanta Journal and the Bir- mingham News and Age Herald. Ella M. Bangs, 84, magazine short story writer, died at her Brockton, Mass., home Oct. 25. She was a mem- ber' of the Maine Writers Associa- tion. Mrs. Isabelle Hawley Scott, 78, au- thor of magazine features and chil- dren's books, died in Syracuse Oct. 28. CHATTER Frank Fenton sold his short story, •Jitterbug,' to Colliers. Elspeth Huxley related to Aldous and Julian Huxley by marriage. Robert Burton Spafford to marry next month and will live in Chesham, N. H. Pascal Covici on the Coast to look in on some of the "Viking Press authors. Mark Greenbriar altered his plans about going abroad and will winter in Georgia. Oxford U. Press has brought out Merlyn Severn's 'Ballet in Action' at $12.50 a copy. Adela Rogers St. John the subject of a piece by Paul Gallico in the December Cosmopolitan. She's his ex-mother-in-law . Story, in its November-December issue, has an innovation In a 14-page poem by James Neugass. Like Philip Goodman, Leslie Spill- er, is another former play producer to try his hand at writing. Edward "V. CuUin has finally put his sailboat in winter storage.' Can now resume his scribbling. ' Lippincott has published 'Your Daily Paper,' by John J. Flaherty. Tells how a newispaper is published. Esquire's new film crick is Louis Paul, by-lined as Patterson Murphy. Meyer Levin film-reviewed hereto- fore. John Greer, Jr., has purchased controlling interest in The Cordele, Ga., Dispatch from Marion Brown, publisher, C. Halliwell Duell, Morrow exec, has gone, abroad tO' find out what the firm's foreign scribblers have for the new season. Stokes has issued Frank Case's book, Tales of a ]Wayside Inn' ($3), the personal memoirs of the N. Y. Algonquin hotel's host.. •Back Where I Came From,* by A. J. Liebling, is Sheridan House's collection of much of the stuff he wrote for the New Yorker. Hendrik Willem van Loon elected to the board of directors of Green- wich Time, published in Greenwich, Conn.- "Van Loon lives there. John Gallishaw left Metro's writ- ing, department to join the new pub- lishing firm of George Palmer Putnam, Inc., as story counsel. John Gassner, New York drama critic and play reader for the Thea- tre Guild, will have his comprehen- sive study of the drama, 'Masters of the Drama,' published by Random House. Dial Press has tatcen from the de- funct Covici, Friede the contract to publish Ludwig Lewisohn's new novel, 'For Ever Wilt Thou Love.' Will put it on the press early next year. Although he's traveled extensively in 31 countries, Theodor S. Geisel has yet to see many parts of America. SoJie's getting ready to visit Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit for the first time. Barrett Keisling is writing another book, 'The Art of Publicity,' to be issued by Johnson Publishing Co. It is a sequel to his 'Talking Pictures,' now in use as textbook in highr schools and colleges. Donald S. Steinfirst new music critic of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He succeeds Dr. Frederick Dorian, one-time critic for a "Vienna news- paper, who is now on the music faculty at Cernegie Tech. Edmund Ware Smith, who quit as managing editor, of National Sports^ man and Hunting and Fishing maga- zines to devote all his time to scrib- bling, will have his 'Tall Tales and Short' published this week. Omnibook, new^ book-magazine, went on the stands^ yesterday. Per- iodical, which will publish books in abridged form, published by a group headed .by Robert .K. Strau.^, of the family which owns Macy's. Fred Neuman, author of 'Irvin S, Cobb, His Life and Letters,' is a lino- type opei'ator in the composing room of the Paducah, Ky., Sun-Democrat. A scribbler on the side, he does book reviews and a Column for the paper. Bruce Dudley, sports editor of Louisville, Ky., Courier-Journal since 1923, has resigned to become executive manager of Louisville American Assn. baseball club. He was succeeded by Earl Ruby, his as- sistant.^ William C. Lengel office named exclusive agent to handle the 82 plays, 43 picture synopses and numer- ous short stories, articles and poems of the late Porter Emerson Browne, left to his daughter, Suzanne, four years ago.. Marie McSwigan, for many years a reporter on the Pittsburgh Press and later the Sun-Telegraph in that city, has just turned out her first book, 'Sky Hooks,' the autobiography of John Kane, published by J'. B. Lippincott, Newsweek gave its m. e.. Rex Smith, inside front cover billing this week, featuring ye ed for his foreign correspondence background. News- week's office ad mentions that the paper has 160 editors, writers, re- porters and researchers. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, tossed in a $1,000 check at a dinner party given last week at the Missouri Athletic Club for Frank A. Behymer, who rounded out a half century of con- tinuous employment with the sheet. As the result of editorial changes on the Ideal mags, Elizabeth Lock- wood, formerly woman's editor of the Hotel World-Review, now editing Movie Life, and Ruth Baer, from Fiction House, editing Personal Ro- mances. Mrs. M. C. Kelley exec edi- tor of the Ideal periodicals. Bills Next Week (Continued from page 51) Ruby Barth MllLCO Pen Trftcoy Chet Fennlfi Qro Stamp's Caf* MLml Stewart Johnny Welsh Cleo & Valentino Joy Juanlta Mnrrone & Gallo Gene liuyloa Jack Huictilnaon Irving Braelow Ore Silver l.nke Inn (Olemrnton) Mickey Famllant Or MacDonald & Rosa Mata Monterea Tommy Osborn Bin Steele >utUln'N KathNkellei 4 Bombshella AlUdred Ollson Marlon Llnsley Sis McCall . Audrey Joyce Jewell EUo. ISdltb'Roberta .Dick Phillips 'Ore Frank Fontt 20th Century Tommy Cullen Oro Harold Beswick 91 Club MItzl O'Neill Ruth Martin Ann Rush Marlon Kingston Jerry Foster Doll Morris ' Marty Landla Oro 1314 Club H'wood a la (8) KIne'a Swinger Ort VIklnir Cafe Jackie Whalen Jerry Delmar Oro Village Ilura Dolores O'Neill Margie Smith Claire & Curtle Airway Duo Jerry Wilson Marty Bohn Nancy I.ee Teddy Oliver Oro Weber'M Hof Uraa <Cumdcn) Nino Carmlno Karl & Gretcben Bavarians Itae Hart Rudy Bruder Ray Miller Julea Flnnco Ore Aristocrats Conchlta Jimmy Lackore BUI Bllffer Bddio Sbeppard J & T Shellenh'mer Yacht Club Kitty. Helmlljie Or* Jimmy Balloy. 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