The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-02-22
GOTHAM GOSSIP

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so often, or more frequently, rumor
is circulated to the effect that the
vested interests" are about to swal-
low the newspapers and periodicals Of
the country. Just now the financial
interests are credited with a desire to
buy all the magazines and merge them
into trust" When that benevolent
so-called Undertaking" magazines
will cease their undertaking and will
devote their space to fiction and such
articles as do not interfere with big
business
One of the sources of rumor is the
fact that the American Magazine has
been sold to the Crowell Publishing
company The American was former
ly owned and dited by John s. Phil
lips, with Finley Peter Dunno. Ray
Stannard Baker, Ida Tarbell and Will
liam Allen White as associates. AS
all of these distinguished writer's. it
is said will continue their connection,
the fear that the magazine will be-
come the organ of the interests ap-
pears to be baseless. Money will buy
printing presses. but, despite the Gym
ical proverb that Every man has his
price," it is 1OO-to-1 shot that the
millionaires of the country have not
enough wealth to get a lease on the
brains of "Mr. Dooley" or Miss Tar
bell or any other brilliant writer's who
have made American magazines and
| newspapers serve the enlivening pur-
pose of sharp-pointed tacks in the
seats of the mighty.
The apology forced from another
magazine because of a mistaken at
tack on the Standard Oil company is
also source Of joy to those who think
American journalism amenable to the
influence of the powers that prey.
Unfortunate as was the unwarranted
allegation against the highly moral
'oil-trust" it remains true that those
who make no mistakes make no war.
| Numerous attempts have been made
in the past to buy up magazines and
newspapers and to use them in fight.
ing the battles of the interests against
the people at large. In practically ev.
cry case such journalistic frauds have
speedily failed. There is nothing to
indicate that the present rumors of a
periodical trust have any foundation
Even if the reports were true. worry
is not indicated. 1t would mean mere
ly that the publications involved were
doomed to failure, and that others
would take their places. The old de
structive undertaking is probably a
thing of the past The constructive
undertaking is just coming into its
own.
! A play without words is the latest
European sensation to be imported to
this country. Entitled THE Darling
of Paris it made a great hit in the
French capitol, and will have its mi
| tial production on this side at the Co
lonial on Monday night. Twenty per
| scans will appear in the cast, and not
| from the rise to the fall of the curtain
The highest price paid for Mark
Twain manuscript at the recent sale
was $500, which A. H. Hahlo> gave for
the original of 1.-The Man that Corrupt
ed Hadleyburg" 1t was written on
/ ING pages and contained the signature
of the author on both the first and
last pages. The manuscript of "A
Horses Tale" brought $500. and that
of 1.-THE $$3O,O0O Request" was knock
ed down for $500.
At last. a modest nobleman! 1t has
I, developed that Nicholas de Doory, a
fiscal agent of this city, is a sure-en
ough Hungarian baron, althoubh he
has never made use of the title since
coming to this country and none of his
business associates know of the front
elevation to his name. Ten days from
today the Baron will be married-not
to an heiress. but to pretty Kathleen
Dessare. a cashier in drug store
whom he loves dearly. DeDoory's Sc
cret. it is said. was divulged by the
bride, who just couldn't keep from
letting her friends know that she was
to become a Baroness, although she
didn't know it until after she had
pledged herself to the man she is to
wed on Feb. %. De Doory is the son
of Baron Ladislaus, of Hungary. As
Hungarian titles are rated Al in the
New York matrimonial market the &C.
ton of the Baron in wooing a poor
girl is all the more remarkable.
Mrs. Anne McElroy Brett, of Texas
is called the telephone oueen Of the