Herbert Howe
Encyclopedia
Career
Howe was one of the most popular Hollywood news writers of his day during the 1920s and 30s, writing for early film fan magazine PhotoplayPhotoplay
Photoplay was one of the first American film fan magazines. It was founded in 1911 in Chicago, the same year that J. Stuart Blackton founded a similar magazine entitled Motion Picture Story...
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Personal life
Closeted in keeping with the times, Howe was a lover of Ramon NovarroRamón Novarro
Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino...
, for whom he worked as a publicist/press agent, and a friend of adventure traveller and travel writer, Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton
Richard Halliburton was an American traveler, adventurer, and author. Best known today for having swum the length of the Panama Canal and paying the lowest toll in its history—thirty-six cents—Halliburton was headline news for most of his brief career...
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