Georgie Starbuck Galbraith

A newspaper review of a performance for 2,000 of The Biblical Story of Esther, said that Georgia Starbuck,[n 2] playing Haman's wife, "proved an actress of charm, giving her highly dramatic moments an expression of reality where the slightest amateur touch would have changed the intense to the theatric".

[6][n 3] Georgie Starbuck married Howard John (Jack) Galbraith, who was captured at Bataan and taken by the ship Ōryoku Maru to Olongapo (where it was bombed and sunk) and by other ships to Moji, but who survived the ordeal and was repatriated.

[2] Magazines she contributed to (as Georgie Starbuck Galbraith) include Adam;[2] The American Legion Magazine;[11] Atlantic Monthly,[2][12][13] 1946–1961;[14] Better Homes and Gardens, 1947–1958;[14] College Humor;[15] Good Housekeeping,[12] 1943–1960;[14] Judge;[2] Knight;[2] Ladies' Home Journal;[2][12][15] Look;[16] McCall's,[2] 1960–1973;[14] Reader's Digest, 1951–1956;[14] The Saturday Evening Post,[2][12] 1943–1961;[14] Saturday Review,[2][12] 1946–1955;[14] and Woman's Home Companion;[15] as well as occasionally to Cosmopolitan,[17] Country Gentleman,[18] Harper's Magazine[19] and Prairie Schooner.

[n 5] The reviewer for The Kansas City Times recommended it as a surprise Christmas present;[9] the reviewer for the Fort Lauderdale News as "great guest room reading";[12] and that for The Buffalo News as "a volume of pure pleasure".

[22]Identifying "the battle of the sexes" as "that richest of mother lodes for the light verse writer out prospecting for subject matter", the poet Richard Armour named Galbraith as one of the women – together with Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley, Margaret Fishback, and Ethel Jacobson – who had "done even better" at this than had the men.