but it lost much of its punch because the personality of the publication was driven by Rob Wagner. Wagner continued championing leftist causes by often profile left-leaning actors and directors. For example, Script profiled actor Angela Lansbury, who wrote a first-person account of her father, Edgar Lansbury, leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom. In March 1947, she sold the magazine to Robert Smith, the general manager of the original Los Angeles Daily News. Smith brought in new writers that added new voices and a much needed lift in film comment. Smith also arranged to have Salvador Dalí contribute cover illustrations. While the publication's circulation rose to its pre-war levels of 50,000, it failed to attract the necessary advertising. It folded in 1949. Les Wagner died in 1965 in South Laguna Beach, California. Florence Wagner died in 1971 in La Jolla, California. Partial filmography The Artist's Sons (1911) (writer) From Dusk to Dawn (1913) (set decorator) Our Wonderful Schools (1915) (director / writer) Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915) (writer) A Yoke of Gold (1916) (writer) A Dog's Life (1918) (actor) The Mite of Love (1919) (actor) Dangerous Business (1920) (writer) R.S.V.P. (1921) (writer) Smudge (1922) (writer) A Trip to Paramountown (1922) (titles) Gee Whiz, Genevieve (1924) (additional gags) Two Wagons, Both Covered (1924) (director / writer) Going to Congress (1924) (director) High Brow Stuff (1924) (director) Our Congressman (1924) (director) It's a Bear (1924) (assistant director) Fair Week (1924) (director) Smilin' at Trouble (1925) (writer) Heads Up (1925) (writer) The Collegians (1926) (writer) So This Is Paris (1926) (titles) Ladies at Ease (1927) (writer) Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928) (writer) References Sources The Best of Rob Wagner's Script by Anthony Slide (1985) Tramp: The Life of Charlie Chaplin by Joyce Milton (1998) Rob Wagner's Beverly Hills Script (Vol. I) Rob Wagner's Script (Vols. II–IV) Western Comrade (1914) Hollywood Bohemia: The Roots of Progressive Politics in Rob Wagner's Script by Rob Leicester Wagner (2016) () External links Rob Wagner biography IMDb Rob Wagner Papers (1925–1942), UCLA Special Collections Motion Picture & Television Fund https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/westerncomrade/d 1872 births 1942 deaths University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni American magazine editors