Talk:George V. Hobart

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Thanks so muc to User:CactusWriter for developing this entry. I noticed that the word "advice" was removed before his Dinkelspiel column. I wasn't sure why. Wasn't the column a satirical advice column featuring feigned German dialect? Also, I saw the bit about his never having a failure added, but in the article on the actress in Miss Printt (sp?) it says it was a failure and caused her to go into bankruptcy. FloridaArmy (talk) 12:05, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I think it is too limiting to call the column an advice column. Hobart's "Dinkenspiel" columns included an array of satirical essays, thoughts and conversations written by the fictional character of D. Dinkenspiel. It is true that some of the essays were satirical advice columns, such as "Dinkenspiel Answers Some Letters" which was written for the Hearst papers. But there were many more that were simply satirical essays. (For example, one can read some examples in Hobart's book "D. Dinkenspiel: His Gonversationings").


 * Yes, I did notice that sentence in the Marie Dressler article about Miss Prinnt leading to Dressler's bankruptcy. (The referenced book by Betty Lee describes Dressler acquiring a new manager and attempting to create her own independent production company for a tour of "Miss Prinnt". It then describes a bad review of the play.) However, notice that the previous cite in the WP article is from the New York Times (6 November 1900, p.6) that states that the show "scores a success." This citation agrees with other newspaper reviews such as in the The Boston Globe (4 December 1900, p.8), Buffalo Times (March 17 1901, p.8), The Dayton Herald (12 February 1901, p.5), etc. All of them give glowing favorable reviews of the play. So it seems Dressler's bankruptcy had little to do with the actual play, but rather was due to financial mismanagement and what Lee describes as Dressler's "reckless orgy of entrepreneurial activity" that left her owing large amounts to a string of creditors. — Cactus Writer (talk) 18:12, 4 January 2020 (UTC)