Louis Sobol (August 10, 1896 – February 9, 1986) was a journalist, Broadway gossip columnist, and radio host.
[4]: 105 After the war, Sobol returned to Connecticut where he became acting city editor on the New London Day[4]: 204 and was an occasional contributor to Variety.
[5]: 26 Sobol resigned from the Graphic in 1931, taking his column to New York Evening Journal[5]: 37–38 and renaming it The Voice of Broadway.
[11] His memoir The Longest Street, which Maurice Zolotow described as "the longest Broadway column ever written" and "a truthful rendering of a certain way of life at a certain period in New York history",[12] describes the people he met and wrote about, the parties they all attended, and what it was like to go from being a small town journalist to a chronicler of Broadway, New York City, and Hollywood.
[14] In 1953, he was called "one of the nation's most popular columnists"; at that time, his New York Cavalcade column had a combined readership between 10 and 14,000,000, being syndicated throughout the country.
[18] Sobol then married Peggy Strohl, a publicist, at City Hall in Santa Barbara, California on July 29, 1950.