The purple prose and purple life of Arthur Stringer | Maclean's | FEBRUARY 9 1963

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Arthur Stringer, who married the original Gibson Girl, also wrote Byronic poetry and The Perils of Pauline, spent a fortune pursuing happiness—and other women—died unrepentant, wept by two generations of international beauties. (From the archive)

IN THE DAYS WHEN POETS scorned teaching and dared to live by the pen alone, a prolific Canadian scribbler, a man of gusto, satire and voluptuousness, inched almost to the top of America’s literary totem pole.

To support his expensive tastes Stringer wrote nearly forty mediocre novels, hundreds of shallow short stories, articles and jingles for magazines and newspapers, and a few thin little plays.

Stringer could play a titanic game of football, paddle a canoe lor a ten-hour turn, portage two hundred pounds of camp kit or lather a pinto — then later spend weeks cultivating bifoliolatc tulips, painting scenery for amateur dramatics or campaigning to raise monuments to fellow Canadian poets. During this time more than thirty of his novels and short stories were made into movies. Money also began to roll in from the Pearl White serials, the scripting of which involved long distance arguments between Stringer and his Hollywood producers. One dispute concerned just how Pauline should be trapped before the wheels of an onrushing express. The producers wired something like this:"Straps or chains would be evidence of murder and make suicide incredible.

Everv year Stringer attended the annual convention of the Canadian Authors' Association. One elderly Canadian woman writer says. “The women went wild over him. They used to compete to sit next to him at the banquets and conferences. Once I went up with Arthur to his room to get some notes from him. A woman who thought she had claimed him t'other own surprised us there. She looked daggers at me. And she's never spoken to me since.

Friends say that the explanation is wholly decorous. Mazo tie la Roche had once been shown a box of silk stockings sent by Stringer to one"Lady Helen on her thirty-sixth birthday.” Below was the verse:

 

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