A 1915 ARTICLE: MARGARET MAYO'S "MOVIE PARTY", SOME NOTABLE ATTENDEES

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ONE OF CROTON'SMOST NOTABLE RESIDENTS---PLAYWRIGHT MARGARET MAYO (Read more about her here)

AND NOW A 1915 ARTICLE:  THE ARGUS---AUGUST 8, 1915---MARGARET MAYO'S "MOVIE" PARTY.  Click on the images and links.  Some notable attendees at the MOVIE PARTY and their bios:

-----AVERY HOPWOOD:  Hopwood started out as a journalist for a Cleveland newspaper as its New York correspondent, but within a year had a play, Clothes (1906), produced on Broadway. He became known as "The Playboy Playwright"^[ and specialized in comedies and farces, some of them with material considered risqué at the time. One play, The Demi-Virgin in 1921, prompted a court case because of its suggestive subject matter, including a risque game of cards, "Stripping Cupid", where a bevy of showgirls teased the audience in their lingerie. The case was dismissed. 

....Hopwood's plays were very successful commercially, but they did not have the lasting literary significance he hoped to achieve. there is however, the Hopwood Award. 

READ MORE ABOUT HOPWOOD HERE. 

-----IRWIN S. COBB: Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb was an American author, humorist, editor and columnist from Paducah, Kentucky, who relocated to New York in 1904, living there for the remainder of his life. 

He wrote for the New York World, Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, as the highest paid staff reporter in the United States. 

Cobb also wrote more than 60 books and 300 short stories. Some of his works were adapted for silent movies. 

Several of his Judge Priest short stories were adapted in the 1930s for two feature films directed by John Ford. 

....The World War II Liberty Ship SS Irvin S. Cobb was named in his honor...Following the Second World War, the Illinois Central Railroad named a passenger train operating between Louisville and Memphis, via Cobb's hometown, Paducah, the Irvin S. Cobb. 

READ MORE ABOUT COBB HERE. 

----HOLBROOK BLINN, also in attendance.  Of Blinn Road fame, and a noted actor in his day..  

Some of his finest silent screen accomplishments are in McTeague (1916), The Bad Man (1923), Rosita (1923), Yolanda (1924), and Janice Meredith (1924), the latter two films both starring Marion Davies.

In 1928, Blinn was unanimously elected president of the Actors' Fidelity League

Here he is in THE BAD MAN; read more ABOUT BLINN HERE. 

AND HERE. 

----SOPHIE IRENE LOEB, a noted American journalist and social-welfare advocate.

In 1912, she wrote the book, Epigrams of Eve, with illustrations by Ruby Lind (Ruby Lindsay.)

She was the president of the Board of Child Welfare of New York for seven years, and in 1921 she established the first child welfare building. In 1924, she became president of the Child Welfare Committee of America.  READ MORE ABOUT HER HERE.

Here's a great article by Loeb:

A LOOK BACK AT CROTON (HARMON) 1917, BY WAY OF SOPHIE IRENE LOEB 

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