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Odd McIntyre was the highest paid and most read newspaper columnist of his era. Typing up his daily column about New York during a period of dramatic technological evolution, he recorded the stories of what was happening backstage and behind the scenes with popular culture around the world.
His peers included some of the leading personalities of the day including writers F. Scott Fitzgerald and Irvin Cobb, columnists Walter Winchell and Louella Parsons, entertainers Florenz Ziegfeld, Billie Burke, and Will Rogers, actors Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin, and many others.
He was there as the telegraph changed the news business, and then as radio changed everything. He covered live entertainment as it shifted from vaudeville to something new and exciting on Broadway, and had a literal front row seat as moving pictures evolved first to nickelodeons, then to silent films, and finally to talkies.
Completely forgotten today, what Odd wrote about entertainment, media, and politics nearly a hundred years ago provides a unique look at one of the most fascinating periods in American popular culture.
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