Stephanie
Pulford, famed internationally for her whimsical poker-playing
dog paintings, began her illustrious career as the Toast of Broadway during
the early 1920s, when discovered at a Chinatown fish market by renowned
"pic-cha" producer D.W. Feinstein, whom she married on a whim in 1924.
The two were happily married until a fatal Zurich cable-car accident claimed
his life in mid-1925.
After noteworthy performances in several sequinned chorus-line shows and violin performances at neighbourhood bat mitzvahs, Miss Pulford tried her hand, with only marginal success, at musical composition.
Distressed at her lack of recognition for her brilliance, she turned to the written media in 1926, when she and fellow starlet hotsy-totsy Alice "Toots" Teeple launched an empire upon a boondock town in central Pennsylvania. Ironically, the original title of the publication, Delicate Corpse of a Madman, sold only mediocrely until, after a prophetic dream induced by one of Pulford's legendary "Trent" drinks, the title changed to the more pentametrically-iambic Exquisite Dead Guy.
In 1934 Miss Pulford wed Captain "Vegetable" McCloud of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They had three children, all of whom ate their spinach; one of whom went on to become a world-renowned musician in her own right.
