Sunday, February 9 1908 — Herriman has a full page as his playground for this Sunday magazine article about Albert H. Woods, theatrical producer. The text is a bit too small to read on this image, so I’ll give you the capsule version:

Woods made his success with unpretentious melodramas, like “Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model” and “Bowery After Dark”, that appealed to common people. His modus operandi was to come up with a catchy title and an eye-catching poster, then have a writer pen the play to fit. Woods had a stable of favorite playwrights, including Theodore Kremer, Owen Davis and Hal Reid. Woods earned the sobriquet ‘King of Melodramania’.

Evidently later on Woods made a name for himself in the ‘legitimate’ theatre