… In 1926, Watkins wrote the play "Chicago," which today is a $2 billion entertainment franchise featuring A-list celebrities, a hit, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical and an Oscar-winning movie. She was sentenced to life imprisonment, and gained public support for a parole, but she died in Joliet prison's infirmary at age 28.
But their collaboration was short-lived. She used that and her screenwriting earnings to invest in prime stocks, buy luxury items and travel the world. Several years ago, Chicago Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather found a box of photo negatives made of glass, stored in the basement of Tribune Tower. Born in 26 Jul 1904 and died in 27 Dec 1932 Forest Park, Illinois Katherine Walter Baluk Watkins shared an apartment with her mother and would stay in the same building until her death. She covered crime, courts and funerals, but also health issues, provided style commentary and followed women leading the pacifism movement. A nine-line death notice in the Florida Times-Union on Aug. 12, 1969, was the only recognition of her passing. He Had It Coming, The true stories that inspired the musical ‘Chicago’ by Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather is available for preorder at store.chicagotribune.com. Time then, 50 years after her death, for Watkins to have her Tribune obituary. On June 8, 1926, New York City theater owner and producer Sam H. Harris announced he would stage Watkins's play. The all-male juries of Cook County rarely convicted women, especially if they were young, white, and at least passably attractive, and her conviction was a great shock. (A similar effort at the New York Times tells the stories of fascinating people who never received final recognition for their life’s work, often women and people of color, launched in 2018 by editor Amisha Padnani.
No one knows how Watkins was hired with no previous professional journalism experience and accounts vary about what she was hired to write about at the Chicago Tribune. A prequel to the acclaimed "The Girls of Murder City: Fame, Lust, and the Beautiful Killers Who Inspired 'Chicago,'" this concise nonfiction e-book tells the story of Kitty Malm, the original resident of Cook County Jail’s Murderess Row.
"I thought I'd turn to newspaper work." When it debuted on Broadway later that year it was a play called “Chicago.” Some years after her death, “Chicago” was adapted by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse into the stage musical best known today; the show opened on Broadway in 1975 and a 1996 revival is currently the second-longest running show on Broadway. Like many newspapers around the country, the Chicago Tribune failed to run her obituary. Instead, she pursued an advanced education. She helped found a newspaper, the Billiken, and delivered blankets, gifts and food to needy families as a member of the Sunshine Society. Everything changed, however, after Watkins' beloved father, George, died on Feb. 15, 1941. To read more about Watkins, the women she profiled and how “Chicago” came to be, The front cover of Maurine Dallas Watkins' play "Chicago" says it's the "only copy in captivity" in Watkins' handwriting. Maurine Dallas Watkins died on Aug. 10, 1969 — 50 years ago this weekend — in Jacksonville, Fla. Don't be surprised if Watkins' name is unfamiliar. Katherine Malm, known as Kitty, the so-called Wolf Woman or Tiger Girl, was accused of killing a night watchman when she was about 20. It would play at the Music Box Theatre in New York City for 22 weeks before other productions opened in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Detroit and Berlin, Germany. In all, Watkins’ estate was valued at $2 million (or, about $14 million in today’s dollars). She stopped writing, stopped working and stopped traveling. She often reported on women inside Cook County Jail. There is only her byline on about 50 stories in the newspaper’s archives. On the outside of the cardboard box was written two words, “Kitty Malm.” Katherine “Kitty Malm” Baluk was one of four women who inspired Watkins to write “Chicago.” Soon, Mather found similar boxes for Beulah Annan, who inspired the character of Roxie Hart; Belva Gaertner, who inspired the character Velma Kelly; and Sabella Nitti, who inspired the character Hunyak. It's likely the most financially successful piece of writing ever produced by a Chicago Tribune reporter in the paper's more than 170 years of operation. Not many traces of Watkins remain at the newspaper. (Maurine Watkins Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) - Original Credit: A young Maurine Watkins, far left, in the Crawfordsville High School yearbook in 1911.
Once described as "rather old-fashioned, she does not smoke, nor drink; neither has she bobbed her hair," Watkins never conformed to society's standards of what a professional, single woman should look like and be. Her final yearbook portrait was accompanied by a quote from the first act of "Romeo and Juliet," a lament about Romeo's unrequited love for the chaste Rosaline: "She'll not be hit with Cupid's arrow." Several years ago, Chicago Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather found a box of photo negatives made of glass, stored in the Tribune Tower basement. In her final months at the Chicago Tribune, she reviewed movies and a few plays. The trio moved to Crawfordsville, Ind., 50 miles northwest of Indianapolis, when Watkins was young. There's no record of her whereabouts for almost a decade — until her name appeared in the 1951 city directory for Jacksonville. (Marian Morrison Collection at the Crawfordsville District Public Library) - Original Credit: Crawfordsville District Public L The three-sentence long obituary for Maurine Dallas Watkins that ran in the Florida Times-Union on Aug. 12, 1969.
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