Alva Johnston

RPOFILE of Addison Mizner. In 1925, the Florida railroads were clogged by thousands of freight trains carrying building materials, and embargoes had to be …

PROFILE of Addison Mizner; recollections of the Florida real-estate boom. In order to save buyers from going to see their purchases, promoters had relief …

PROFILE of Addison Mizner, the Palm Beach architect. Jones a wealthy old bachelor known as King Jones of Baden-Baden, was one of Addison's clients & …

PROFILE of Addison Mizner, the society architect. Alec Waugh, a carefully reared English school boy, now a novelist, joined the Mizner staff. He could …

PROFILE of Wilson Mizner.

PROFILE of Wilson Mizner covering his playwriting phase. In 1911, he was not only box-office success; he was also the center of an intellectual disturbance…

PROFILE of Wilson Mizner. When he died in 1933, he was Broadway's leading wit, a successful playwright & confidence man. But years before that, he had …

Profile of Rex Stout in whose detective novels the leading character is Nero Wolfe, a fat detective. Nero Wolfe is a curiously elegant and luminous talker …

PROFILE of Jo Mielziner, the stage designer. One of the One of the house-lovely magazines not long ago asked him to write an article treating stage design …

Profile of Al Rosen, Hollywood agent, and a new genius of the threatre. Rosen has been much written about by a great Abraham Lincoln scholar-Lloyd Lewis, …

Profile of John F. Royal, vice-president of the N.B.C., who at one time managed vaudeville houses for the Keith Albee chain. One of the Keith headliners …

Profile of Lawrence Ottinger, president of the United States Plywood Company. Tells about Donald Deskey's contribution to making plywood more a more …

PROFILE of Joe E. Brown tells about Brown's appearance at D. J. Grauman's Unique Theatre, in San Francisco. For box-office reasons, Grauman fed his…

PROFILE of Breadsley Ruml. In 1922, at the age 27, Ruml was engaged to think up plans for spending 74 million dollars which John D. Rockefeller, Sr. had …

PROFILE of Beardsley Ruml. Ruml's mother came from New England of a family of Scottish-English stock, among whose descendants are the Alka-Seltzer and …

Profile of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Birdwell was criticized for bad taste because of his Career Insurance movement. He was accused of …

PROFILE of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Victo Watson, the news editor of the Mirror, called Bridewell in one day and told him to go out and …

PROFILE of Russell Birdwell, Hollywood press agent. Tells about his publicity work for Elaine Shephard, a free client. She was called on to be a judge in a…

PROFILE of Raymond C. Schindler, head of the Schindler Bureau of Investigation. The Lever Brothers Co., of Cambridge, Mass., was full of agony in the late …

PROFILE of Glenn L. Martin tells about his days as an exhibition flyer, his career in aviation, and his airplane factories. Many of his greatest …

PROFILE of Wilson Mizner who married Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes Her previous husband was Charles T. Yerkes, whose name is known today mainly because of the …

PROFILE of Wilson Mizner. Talking about Tom Sharkey, the great heavyweight prizefighter, who kept a saloon with the old-fashioned swinging doors, Mizner …

REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial of the Aluminum Co. of America. His story of the aluminum industry. Aluminun has been known only since 1825, when a …

REPORTER AT LARGE about Asst. Atty. Genl. Thurman Arnold's anti-trust suit against the Aluminum Co. Of America. In a self-congratulatory publicty …

PROFILE of Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, a former prizefighter, who now runs a gymnasium in the Roseland Bldg., 1658 Broadway. He has no patience with …

PROFILE of Jesse L. Lasky. The first feature picture made in Hollywood was "The Squaw Man." It was produced by the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Co., which …

PROFILE of John S. Sumner, Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He deals with the writing of smut.

PROFILE OF Christy Walsh, of the Christy Walsh Syndicate, of ghostwriters. Walsh Was himself, 16 years ago, the ghostwriter for Eddie Rickenbacker. Since …

PROFILE of Carr V. Van Anda, of the N. Y. Times. The motto of the copy-reader in the sporting department at one time was "If you see a good line strike it …

PROFILE of Billy Rose, showman and songwriter. He has written about twenty hits, Barney Google," "You've Got to See Mama Every Night Or You Can't …

Profile of Edward N. Jackson, veteran photographer of the Daily News.

PROFILE of Werner Janssen, conductor and composer.

Mort Henderson, known as the Masked Marvel, mentioned in PROFILE of Jack Curley. Short personality sketch.

The second part of Alva Johnston’s two-part Profile of Albert Einstein, from 1933.

Alva Johnston on how the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate Albert Einstein—who, before publishing his theory of relativity, had been almost a recluse—came to tolerate his popularity.

Tells of the people who are responsible for winning the repeal, among which are men of action like Al Smith, Raskob, and Butler. Dr. Butler's ceaseless…

Profile of George Z. Medalie, current United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and some of the reforms that he has brought about since …

Tells of the Republican Party, and some of the reasons for its mental, moral and social breakdown. One faction of Republicans believe that the party will …

Profile of Will H. Hays, the czar of the film industry. Tells of his various moves to consolidate the growing industry, and in 1927, the federal regulation…

Profile of Samuel W. Gumpertz, circus man who in the course of thirty-one freak-hunting expeditions abroad, visited Asia five times, Java once, the …

Tells of the new director of the greatest show on earth, Samuel W. Gumpertz who has been in the amusement business for more than half a century. The …

Tells about Lou Stillman's gymn on Fifty-Seventh and Eighth Avenue. Trains prizefighters there and develops them for the ring. Their indoor sports also…

Tells of Stillmans Gymnasium on Fifty-seventh Street and Eighth Avenue which has been established for eighteen year and has helped to develop more than …

Profile of Gene Buck, the president of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. He controls and corners the supply of popular and jazz …

REPORTER AT LARGE about some of the issues that the country will have to face if the Eighteenth Amendment is repealed. There is the conflict of interest …

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

PROFILE of Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, who was deported from America this May and placed in jail at Grasse, France, for swindling …

Tells of Joseph Lewis, who has made a business of Atheism making it pay. His unholiness, as his admirers call him, has a thriving mail-order business in …

Profile of Martin W. Little, the spellbinder and oratorical lawyer who used all his persuasive eloquent powers in convincing the jury that his client is …

REPORTER AT LARGE. Some more details on how the Knickerbocker Village was bought up by Fred F. French in dummy companies. Despite the fact that he was in …

Describes the effect brought about by Frank Hague, the Democratic boss and Mayor of Jersey City who turned the Democratic convention upside down. He ruined…

Profile of Samuel Liebowitz, crimanal lawyer. Tells some more about his courtroom methods. They are broad and direct. He laughs and the jury laughs with …

Profile of the criminal lawyer, Samuel S. Leibowitz who out of 78 men charged with murder in the first degree; his record is 77 acquittals; one …

Tells of the houseparty evangelist, Reverend Frank Buchman who started his soul-saving career at Cambridge where he was known as the Old Moral Uplift. He …

Profile of George W. Olvany, once Tammany leader and who resigned suddenly on March. 15, 1929. He had just met with disfavor from his party after writing …

Profile of W. Kingsland Macy who has recently been the first Republican candidate to emerge in New York since the rise of Charles Evans Hughes twenty-six …

Alva Johnston on the feuds and gang wars among New York’s stevedores and longshoremen.

PROFILE of Charles V. Bob, who had mountain range named after him by Adm. Bird, at South Pole. In 1927, Bob, after obscure and hunted life as blue-sky …

Profile of the the Bishop of the Protestant Diocese of New York who is the Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine which under his careful and …

I can't help laughing when I read about colleague of mine paying from $12,000 to $200,00 for their places on the bench. I got my appointment …

Profile of William Z. Foster, Red leader and propagandist who is now a prisoner at Hart Island. Has been representing the radical party of Moscow in …

REPORTER AT LARGE. The enthuriasm for installing bar rooms has created a new antique market. An authentic bock beer sign is worth about fifty dollars. …

Reporter at Large about private detective egencies, ethics how the personnel is trained, etc. Heads of successful agencies differ as to the value of lady …

PROFILE of Charles H. Tuttle, U. S. District Attorney. The history of Mr. Tuttle is that of a model boy who became a model man. There was some doubt …

Profile of C.C. Pyle, who invented the bunion derby and lursd Red Grange and Suzanne Lenglen into professionalism. He promoted his first sporting event at …

Alva Johnston’s 1928 report on the gangster killing of Little Augie, the differences between New York gangs and Chicago gangs in Prohibition-era America, and the rise of Al Capone.

PROFILE of Senator Royal S. Copeland, made Health Commissioner of New York in 1918. Worked with influenza epidemic. Orthodox Tammany man.