Monday, Sep. 05, 1932
After Quirk
After Quirk
Seventeen years ago in Chicago an attractive, blue-eyed miss named Katherine Dougherty got a $15-a-week job as assistant bookkeeper for a skimpy little pamphlet called Photoplay. Last week Miss Dougherty went from the Chicago to the Manhattan office of Photoplay to succeed the late James R. Quirk as president & publisher. In the interim she had folded circulars, addressed envelopes, read manuscripts, worked 40 Sundays a year for the first five years. She is still attractive and young looking. Photoplay is no longer a pamphlet but the most dignified, most richly mounted of cinema "fan" magazines (circulation 559,000). The selection of Miss Dougherty (whose signature "Kay Dee" has long been a mark of authority in Photoplay's office) was no surprise. Energetic, aggressive, she had shared control of the magazine with Publisher Quirk for several years. Normally softspoken, Publisher Dougherty can swear like a trooper when dealing with men. Her principal business rival is a woman--red-haired Catherine McNelis, president & publisher of Tower Magazines which include New Movie, Photoplay's most serious competitor. Publisher Dougherty does not inherit Mr. Quirk's title of editor. A board of six editors was appointed, headed by Managing Editor William T. Walsh.
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