University of Wyoming
J. P. McEvoy (1895-1958) was a "Reader's Digest" roving editor for twenty years. He was a columnist for both the "Chicago Herald Tribune" and the "New York American." He was also a novelist (12 books), short story writer, playwright (10 Broadway plays including 3 Ziegfield Follies), critic, cartoonist (responsible for the "Dixie Dugan" comic strip), poet, and author of radio, television, and movie scripts.
Margaret (Santry) McEvoy was J. P. McEvoy's third wife. She was a New York newspaperwoman and photographer and the host of a radio program where she interviewed noted people. After their marriage, the McEvoys worked as a team with Margaret representing news services and doing photographs and articles.
The Joseph Patrick McEvoy and Margaret Santry papers contain a variety of scripts, and manuscripts, and radio scripts from the span of J. P. McEvoy's career. Included in these papers are notes and ideas for a motion picture comedy based in New York, certificates of registration of copyright to J. P. McEvoy from the Library of Congress, and the manuscript for "The Absent Minded Professor," as well as other stories, outlines, radio scripts, and galleys for the "Dixie Dugan" comic strip. Also included in the collection are artifacts, biographical information files on several actors and family members, blueprints, broadsides, bulletins, correspondence, newspaper clippings, news releases, notebooks, photographs, reports, sketches, scrapbooks, songs, speeches, transcripts, and working notes.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by J. P. McEvoy and Margaret Santry at the date of processing.
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