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Box 2

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Folder 1

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents Mather Tower, with cupolas of the London Guarantee & Accident Building, and the Jewelers Building, at "3 A.M." (possibly photographed from the top of Tribune Tower; inscribed "Edward McGill"; formerly misidentified as Tribune Tower)"Col." S.S. McKenny at 80th birthday celebration, Tribune TowerGroup of 16 women (in a restaurant?) reading "The Littlest Rib"Portrait of Robert LeePortrait of an unidentified...
Dates: 1895 - 1944

Folder 1

 Item — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents The photographs are autographed unless stated otherwise. They measure 8" x 10", or smaller:Robert G. Bignole (1925)Edwin Carew (1925)Jackie Cooper with Mae Tinee (3 items, not autographed; in Mae Tinee's office)Bebe DanielsPauline GaronCorinne GriffithClara HortonBert LytellFrancis Marion (not autographed)Tom MoorePat O'Malley (3 items)Lupe Velez (8 items, not...
Dates: 1895 - 1944

Readers' letters to Mae Tinee, 1925 - 1937

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection consists of the personal and professional papers of Frances Peck Grover, whose career at the Chicago Tribune (1911-1945) was spent chiefly as movie critic (the first to write under the name "Mae Tinee"). This archive includes family correspondence and photographs, correspondence and pictures of movie stars of the 1920s, and scrapbooks of newspaper columns.

Dates: 1925 - 1937

Letters to Mae Tinee from various actors and actresses, 1925 - 1929

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Letters to Mae Tinee from:Warner Baxter (April 22, 1929)Monte Blue (November 9, 1927)Florence la Badie (October 16, 1928)Louise Dresser (3 letters, no dates)William S. Hart (January 28, 1926)Georgie Jessel (October 9, 1926)Harry Langdon (October 20, 1926)Walter McGrail (December 6, no year)Thomas Meighan (September 11, 1925)Colleen Moore (2 letters, February 6, 1926 and October 5, 1928)Mabel...
Dates: 1925 - 1929

Valentino, Rudolph, 1926

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Clippings on the death of Rudolph Valentino (August 1926); copy of Mae Tinee's interview with Valentino in February 1926, and a letter relating to the interview; 2 photographs of Valentino, one with Agnes Ayres, and one with Velma Bankey

Dates: 1926

Pamphlets, 1927; 1932

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

  • Women of the World's Greatest Newspaper (1927)
  • "Newspaper feature writers wurvey" (1932-06; prepared by the Business Survey, Chicago Tribune)
  • Dates: 1927; 1932