found: Contemporary Authors Online, via Literature resource center WWW site, Oct. 24, 2018(Homer Croy; born March 11, 1883, near Maryville, Mo., died May 24, 1965, in New York, N.Y.; Free-lance writer, screenwriter, and humorist. Reporter with newspapers in Missouri, including St. Joseph Gazette, St. Joseph Press, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Assistant to Theodore Dreiser, editor of magazines for Butterick Publications, New York, NY)
found: IMDb, November 1, 2018:(Homer Croy, writer, director ; b. March 11, 1883 in Maryville, Missouri, USA ; d. May 24, 1965 (age 82) in New York City, New York, USA)