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* Jack White to David Bruskin, Behind the Three Stooges: The White Brothers, Directors Guild of America, 1993, p. 148,

* Jack White to David Bruskin, Behind the Three Stooges: The White Brothers, Directors Guild of America, 1993, p. 148,

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Margaret Knapp Waller

Career

Margaret Knapp Waller, before immigrating to America in 1925, performed in Vienna at the Renaissancetheater [de], the Volkstheater, and the Josef Jarno Theater (Theater in der Josefstadt). In the United States, after performing with the German Players’ Association (Deutsche Künstler Vereinigung) at the Earl Carroll Theatre Midtown Manhattan, she went on to perform with The Neuhaus German Players (Victor Neuhaus) in Los Angeles. By way husband’s sister Eugenie Waller Riegelhaupt (1893–1980), Margaret was a grand-aunt-in-law of Robert Howard Lieberman (born 1941), novelist, film director, and longtime Cornell physics professor. She once lived at 1301 W. Wetherby, Beverly Hills.

Stage

Dates Play Writer(s) Director Role Theater
March 26 Old Heidelberg Niehaus German Theater
Ebell Wilshire Theater
Los Angeles
Cast:

  1. Wolfram Zilzer (1901–1991) as the Prince;
  2. Margaret Knapp as Katie; who, in 1931, played Bonnie Jordan (the Joan Crawford role) in the German film version of Dance, Fools, Dance (Irrwege des Lebens). The contract was negotiated by Moe Sackin.[a]
  3. Chorus recruited from Germania Saengerfest [Germania Singers’ Festival];
  4. Otto Charles Kottka (1888–1952);
  5. Leo White (1873–1948),
  6. Emo von Bardeleben (1861–1943);
  7. Bertold Sprotte (1870–1949)
  8. Costea Mooth (né Costea Muth; 1878–1952);
  9. Hans J. Schumm;
  10. Rudolf Steinboeck (1908–1996);
  11. Paul Panzer (né Paul Wolfgang Panzerbeiter; 1872–1958);
  12. Johanna Hagen;
  13. Charles de la Motte, stage name of Charles Motta (né Carlo Motta; 1905–1989), character actor; He formed a small film productions company, Charles de la Motte Productions, Bronx, in 1925 with Philip Monteil and Rudolph Weiber. De La Motte appeared in
    1. Arrowsmith (1931),
    2. Half Holiday (1931 short),
    3. This Is the Night (1932),
    4. Doubling in the Quickies (1932),
    5. Air Mail (1932),
    6. Riot Squad (1933),
    7. Don’t Play Bridge with Your Wife (1933).
      1. In 1937, became radio director for Reiss Advertising Agency.
      2. In 1938, joined Forjoe & Co., radio station representative as supervisor of the Italian-American advertising department.
Charles Motta, formerly wine advertising manager of Beverage Media (LCCN sv90-40003; LCCN 40-33979; LCCN sv85-13707), in 1957, joined the space sales staff of National Theater & Concert Magazines, New York. He previously was business manager for the wine accounts of Liquor Publications Inc. and also was a screen comedian for a decade with the Mack Sennett comedies. In 1961, Motta resigned as advertising manager of Temas, New York, Spanish language magazine.
Motta, well known as Charles De La Motta, Italian character actor of stage, screen and radio, has joined Reiss Advertising Inc., Rockefeller Center, New York, as executive in charge of radio. He will head a newly formed foreign advertising department of that agency. Mr. Motta formerly was associated with KTM, KMTR and KMPC in California. His first radio effort is a half -hour transcribed program which he produced and directed and which is now being auditioned.

He also was a Radio star broadcasting on KMPC (Los Angeles).

  1. Conrad Seidemann (né Carl Georg Conrad Seidemann; 1874–1949) (director).
July 18, 1939 Hero Come Home Dorothy Dow Fitzgerald (née Dorothy Minerva Dow; 1897–1989) Coach House Theater
Oconomowoc Lake, Wisconsin
May Elizabeth Valentine (née May Elizabeth Lester; 1869–1965), founder
Dr. Walter R. Volbach (1887–1996), Director
July 18, 1939 Ducks and Drakes
Winner, “Marjorie Montgomery Ward Baker Prize” 		Eleanor Carroll Chilton (1898–1949) and her husband, Herbert Sebastian Agar (1897–1980) Coach House Theater

Naturalization

Margaret Waller immigrated aboard the S.S. Empress of Scotland, arriving at the Port of Quebec, from Hamburg via Southampton & Cherbourg, September 11, 1924.

Margaret Waller was naturalized June 20, 1927, New York District Court. The New York Voter Registration for 1940 shows her to be divorced and also reflect that she lived at The Willard, 252 W. 76th St. #310, New York (Upper West Side).

Residences

On July 23, 1923, according to a ship manifest, the Berengaria (Cunard), Leo Waller was a commercial traveler working for Scholl Manufacturing Co Ltd, Orthopaedic Appliance Makers, located at 1–4 Giltspur Street, London.
According to the 1925 New York Census, Leo L. Waller and Margaret M. Waller resided at Kew Gardens Terrace Apartments, Kew Gardens, Queens.
According to Leo Waller’s World War II Draft registration, Leo resided at 126 East 28th Street, Manhattan. He was employed by Hersco-Arch Products Corp., founded in the late 1930s by Irwin Herskovitz (1894–1957). Séamus Kennedy, BEng (Mech), CPed, FAAOP(A) and Cathal Kennedy, who had immigrated to the United States in 1991, purchased Hersco in March 1995.
More than 225 prosthetists and orthotists and their guests were registered for the 1956 Prosthetic and Orthopedic Conference held at the Hotel Biltmore in New York City April 27 and 28. Sponsored jointly by the Metropolitan (New York) Orthopedic Appliance and Limb Manufacturers Association and by Regions I and II of OALMA, the conference was planned by a committee headed by Mrs. Mary Dorsch, of the Dorsch-United Limb and Brace Company, and including Fred J. Eschen, Charles R. Goldstine, Mrs. Adele Tenenbaum, and Leo Waller, all members of the New York Association.

Bibliography

Annotations

  1. ^ Knapp, before immigrating to America in 1925, performed in Vienna at the Renaissancetheater [de], the Volkstheater, and the Josef Jarno Theater (Theater in der Josefstadt). In the United States, after performing with the German Players’ Association (Deutsche Künstler Vereinigung) at the Earl Carroll Theatre Midtown Manhattan, she went on to perform with The Neuhaus German Players (Victor Neuhaus) in Los Angeles. By way husband’s sister Eugenie Waller Riegelhaupt (1893–1980), Margaret was a grand-aunt-in-law of Robert Howard Lieberman (born 1941), novelist, film director, and longtime Cornell physics professor. She once lived at 1301 W. Wetherby, Beverly Hills.

Notes

References

  • Jack White to David Bruskin, Behind the Three Stooges: The White Brothers, Directors Guild of America, 1993, p. 148,
    1. Via Google Books (snippet view only).

Reissued as:

    1. Via Internet Archive (limited preview).
    1. 1st ed. (1998). New York: Vestal Press. p. 161. LCCN 98-16059; ISBN 978-1-8795-1135-4, 1-8795-1135-5, ISBN 978-1-8795-1141-5, 1-8795-1141-X (paperback).
      1. Via Internet Archive.
    2. 2nd ed. (2009) (rev. and expanded). iUniverse. p. 257. LCCN 2010-474013; ISBN 978-1-4401-7237-3, 1-4401-7237-4 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4401-7239-7, 1-4401-7239-0 (hardcover).
    1. 1999 ed (1st ed.). Alfred A. Knopf. LCCN 98-48060; ISBN 978-0-6794-3840-3, 0-6794-3840-8 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-7567-6698-6, 0-7567-6698-2, ISBN 978-0-3078-2918-4, 0-3078-2918-9 (eBook), ISBN 978-1-2992-5523-4, 1-2992-5523-X (2012 eBook).
      1. Via Internet Archive (limited preview).
      2. Via Google Books (limited preview).
      3. Via Brooklyn Public Library (2012 eBook).
    2. 2000 ed. Wesleyan University Press published by University Press of New England. LCCN 00-103152; ISBN 978-0-8195-6451-1, 0-8195-6451-6 (paperback)
      1. Via Internet Archive (limited preview).
      2. Via Google Books (limited preview).
    1. Via Internet Archive (Kahle/Austin Foundation; Freeport Memorial Library, withdrawn).
  • Pantages, Lloyd (August 10, 1934). “‘I Cover Hollywood‘“. [Syndicated column that ran from 1933 to 1937; King Features Syndicate. Lloyd Pantages (1907–1987) was a son of theater magnate, Alexander Pantages (1867–1936)].
    1. Via Los Angeles Examiner. Vol. 79, no. 331. CDNR SN 82014773; LCCN sn82-14773; OCLC 1756176 (all editions).
    2. Via San Francisco Examiner. Vol. 141, no. 41. p. 14. Retrieved October 31, 2025 – via Newspapers.com. LCCN ca10-4015, LCCN 2023-240337, LCCN sn82-6825; ISSN 2574-593X; OCLC 1764973 (all editions).
Lloyd Pantages, whose syndicated column since 1933, “I Cover Hollywood,” had been carried the Hearst eastern newspapers, began contributing to the Los Angeles Examiner, March 5, 1934, for a three-week period. His column was used in place of one normally written by Jim Mitchell, who was ill. (“Pantages Subbing”. Variety. Vol. 113, no. 12. March 6, 1934. p. 66. Free access icon)
    1. “Mack Sennett, Famed Comedy Creator, Dies”. Vol. 79, no. 331. 6 November 1960. pp. 1 (section A) & 2 (section B).
      1. Blog ed. via Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
      2. Print ed. via Newspapers.com.
    2. “Movies: Mack Sennett Collection Gathers 50 Slapstick Classics Into One Set”. 29 September 2014.
      1. Blog ed. via Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  • Biography in Sound. Documentary series broadcast from 1954 to 1958 on NBC, created by producer Joseph Meyers.
    1. “Magnificent Rogue: The Adventures of W.C. Fields”. Aired February 28, 1956. Narrated by: Fred Allen just before his death March 17, 1956; with Edgar Bergan, Errol Flynn (1909–1959), Ed Wynn (1886–1966), and Mack Sennett.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) OCLC 28559342 (all editions)
      1. Audio via Internet Archive. Retrieved October 30, 2025. Free access icon
      2. Audio via Internet Archive. Retrieved October 30, 2025. Free access icon
      3. Archive Record (Catalog No. R89:0171). New York: Paley Center for Media. Archived from the original on April 2, 2025. Retrieved October 14, 2024. Free access icon
    1. Via Internet Archive. San Francisco: Mercury House. LCCN 89-27618 (1990 re-print)
    1. Via Google Books (limited preview).
    2. Via Google Books (limited preview).
  • TEMAS (monthly magazine; founded 1950). New York: Jose de la Vega (died 1994). Temas Magazine Inc. Temas Corp. Familiar Publishing Corp. ISSN 0040-2869.
    1. “Motta Joins Reiss”. Vol. 13, no. 7. October 1, 1937. p. 62. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Library of Congress). Free access icon
    1. “Motta Joins Theater Group”. Vol. 28, no. 36. September 9, 1957. p. 123. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Media History Digital Library). Free access icon
    2. “Motta Joins Theater Group”. Vol. 32, no. 46. November 13, 1961. p. 10. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Media History Digital Library). Free access icon
    1. “Motta Joins Agency”. Vol. 2, no. 62. September 28, 1937. p. 3. Retrieved October 24, 2025 – via Internet Archive (Media History Digital Library). Free access icon
  • Brooklyn Daily Eagle (October 13, 1929). Coming from Vienna, She Finds Herself in Naples. Vol. 89. p. 2E (digital image 56) (Re: “Margaret Knapp Waller”.
    1. Via Newspapers.com. Retrieved October 24, 2025.
    2. Via Newspapers.com. Retrieved October 24, 2025. Free access icon
    1. Via Internet Archive (Library of Congress). Free access icon

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