Editing The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy

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[[File:Franklovejoy.png|thumb|c|Frank Lovejoy]]

==Frank Lovejoy==

''played by Andrew Cole''

Frank Lovejoy is a staff writer for the [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]].

==Biography==

[[File:Bloomfield_library.jpeg|thumb|c|The Bloomfield Public Library in the winter of 1914.]]

Born on August 28, 1900 as the third child of ten, Frank Lovejoy chafed at the oppressively blank horizons of his Bloomfield, Iowa home. An avid reader, he dreamed of mountains, oceans and cities, and vaguely resented the burdens placed on him as the oldest surviving child. His parents, Nick and Elsie Lovejoy, both the children of immigrants, encouraged his ambitions as much as they could, but were able to spare little of his time. Frank left school after completing the eighth grade to help his father in running his grocery store, making deliveries in the store van. Leaving school hurt deeply, but he continued his education as best he could, drawing heavily on the town's Carnegie library. Frank came to view this library, which opened on August 8, 1913, as an early birthday present from the steel magnate.

With the outbreak of the Great War in Europe, Frank saw his chance, and served as a driver for the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps from 1916 until the end of the war. There he met other established and aspiring writers like John de Passos and Olaf Stapledon; Stapledon's position as a conscientious objector to the conflict was especially fascinating to Lovejoy, who adopted similar anti-military positions following his service.

Following the armistice, Lovejoy, along with other Americans who had contributed to the war effort, was offered a place at Oxford. The high school dropout jumped at the chance. After graduating with a degree in History in 1923, he drifted around Europe for a few years, supporting himself as a correspondent for various American newspapers and magazines, among them the Chicago Star and the Detroit Evening Times. Although he tried his hand at writing fiction, producing a handful of short stories and a formless, nervous novel, Lovejoy was a better reader of fiction than a producer of it. He proved a popular newspaperman, however, and so in 1926 he accepted a job as a feature writer for the Chicago Star and returned to the States to pen ''Night Beat,'' a column focusing on the disaffected personalities and communities that thrived in the White City after hours. The rash of unexplained occurrences in February, 1929 was an especially fertile time for ''Night Beat;'' Lovejoy was widely syndicated, and his May 22 column titled [http://ia700300.us.archive.org/13/items/Nightbeat_otr/500522_I_Wish_You_Were_Dead.mp3 'I Wish You Were Dead'] was shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing.

[[File:Night-Beat-Cover.png|thumb|upright=0.5|Cover design by Guy Fry]]

The stock market crash of 1929 cut deeply into the public's taste for the cavalcade of freaks, loners and dipsos that Lovejoy had chronicled with sympathy for nearly four years. The Star discontinued ''Night Beat,'' but offered to keep him on staff as a regular reporter for a substantially reduced salary. With more pride than sense, he declined, and returned to Bloomfield to try his hand at writing another book. '''Night Beat''', a memoir of his Chicago years, was critically well-received but failed to sell well. 

:<tt>An intriguing mixture of fact, fable and speculation, [Night Beat] offers occult thrills, but fails to find a common thread uniting the weirdos and wastrels that (apparently) throng the labyrinthine streets of night-time Chicago. </tt>

::—the Chicago Star's drily ironic review.

With money tight, and chafing again at the limited opportunities of Bloomfield, Lovejoy accepted a job at the Detroit Evening Times in April of 1931. Although now a regular columnist instead of a feature writer, Lovejoy continues to cover the night side of society, prying into the speakeasies, slums and Curtisvilles of the Motor City.

==[http://www.detroiteveningtimes.com Journal]==

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==Affiliations==

==Associates==

==Timeline==

===1900===

; August
: 28 - Born

===1916===

; September
: Becomes an ambulance driver in the Great War

===1923===

; June
: Graduates with a degree in History from Oxford University

===1932===

; October
: 19 - Incursion
: 23 - Departs for France

==Frank Lovejoy Documents==

===Newspaper Articles===

Lovejoy is a staff writer for the [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]. Enclosed is a selection of articles written by him about the Irish Rose Matter.

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! scope="col" width="7%" | Date !! scope="col" width="50%" | Title !! scope="col" width="22%" | Author !! Publication
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| 1928-11-21 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Kansas City Influenza| Influenza Outbreak Calls For Quarantine]] || ''Unknown'' || Kansas City Star
|-
| 1932-08-05 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Saloonkeeper Slain As Gang War Erupts | Saloonkeeper Slain As Gang War Erupts]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-06 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Irish Rose Medico A Mystery | Irish Rose Medico A Mystery]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-07 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Second "Doctor" In Rose Murder Identified | Second "Doctor" In Rose Murder Identified]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-08 ||  [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Cream of Society Fills Rose While Gang War Brews | Cream of Society Fills Rose While Gang War Brews]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-09 ||  [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Macklin's Girl Speaks! | Macklin's Girl Speaks!]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-10 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Strange Incident at Curtisville Church | Strange Incident at Curtisville Church]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-11 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Kansas City Connection Discovered in Irish Rose Murder | Kansas City Connection Discovered in Irish Rose Murder]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-12 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: International Connection Discovered in Irish Rose Murder | International Connection Discovered in Irish Rose Murder]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-16 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: White Slavery in the Motor City! | White Slavery in the Motor City!]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-17 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Heroic Doctor Speaks! | Heroic Doctor Speaks!]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-19 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Gangland Doctors Experimenting On Kidnaped Children | Gangland Doctors Experimenting on Kidnaped Children]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-21 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Our Nightmare Ordeal! | "Our Nightmare Ordeal!"]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-08-29 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Charnel House in Kansas City | Charnel House in Kansas City]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-09-04 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Murder, Vivisection, Conspiracy | Murder, Vivisection, Conspiracy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|-
| 1932-10-09 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Iriah Rose: Behind The Imperial Mask | Behind the Imperial Mask]] ||  [[The Stars Are Right: Frank Lovejoy | Frank Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Detroit Evening Times | Detroit Evening Times]]
|}

===Correspondence===

''Correspondence regarding newspaper articles may be addressed to Frank Lovejoy, Box 13, c/o the Detroit Evening Times.''

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! scope="col" width="7%" | Date !! scope="col" width="50%" | Title !! scope="col" width="22%" | Author !! Received Via
|-
| 1931-01-15 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter1 | F. Huber to M. de Bonnevault]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Franz Huber | Franz Huber]] || ''Unknown''
|-
| 1932-01-15 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter2 | F. Huber to M. de Bonnevault, list of correspondence]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Franz Huber | Franz Huber]] || ''Unknown''
|-
| 1932-08-08 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.1 | Note to F. Lovejoy]] || ''Unknown'' || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-09 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.2 | Note to F. Lovejoy]] || ''Unknown Crank'' || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-09 ||  [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.3 | Note to F. Lovejoy]] || ''Unknown'' || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-10 ||  [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.4 | H. Flynn to F. Lovejoy, telegram]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Heather Flynn | Heather Flynn]] || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-11 ||  [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.5 | D. Ferris to F. Lovejoy, letter]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Daphne Ferris | Daphne Ferris]] || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-17 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Box13.6 | D. Rose Darby to F. Lovejoy]] || [[TheStarsAreRight:Delancy_Darby | Delancy Rose Darby]] || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-19 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter5 | C. de la Fére to F. Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Antonio Grimaldi | Antonio Grimaldi]] || Box 13
|-
| 1932-08-24 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter 8 | Correspondence between F. Lovejoy and H. Flynn, August 1932]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Heather Flynn | Heather Flynn]] || Courier Network
|-
| 1932-08-00 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter7 | Boyar Rulianov to V. Grayson]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Boyar Rulionoff | P. Rulionoff]] || Courier Network
|-
| ''Unknown'' || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Letter3 | H. Flynn to M. de Bonnevault]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Heather Flynn | Heather Flynn]] || ''Unknown''
|
|}

===Legal Documents===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! scope="col" width="7%" | Date !! scope="col" width="50%" | Title !! scope="col" width="22%" | Author !! Received Via
|-
| 1930-00-00 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Nightsider Treaty | Treaty between C. Ellis and F. Christian et al.]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Carl Ellis | Carl Ellis]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Meridon Caine | Meridon Caine]]
|}

===Personal Records===

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%"
! scope="col" width="7%" | Date !! scope="col" width="50%" | Title !! scope="col" width="22%" | Author !! Received Via
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| 1932-08-21 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Parkhurst Interview | G. Parkhurst to F. Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Gregory Parkhurst | Gregory Parkhurst]] || Personal Interview
|-
| 1932-09-02 || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Rhyner Interview | H. Rhyner to F. Lovejoy]] || [[The Stars Are Right: The Irish Rose: Hannelore Rhyner | Hannelore Rhyner]] || Personal Interview
|}

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