Word: actor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgatherers found Master Farjeon quite a normal, small boy, however. He could play with other children; he would eat his meals. He had studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea...
Died. Peter Christopher Arnold Daly, 51, famed actor; in Manhattan, by fire...
Arnold Daly, actor, died last week in Manhattan. His life was brilliant and formless, his death terrible, grotesque and blurred. He began as an office boy for Charles Frohman. He became dresser for John Drew. Leaving Mr. Drew, he said that he would become an actor-not only an actor, a better actor than John Drew. He appeared with Fanny Rice in The Jolly Squire in 1892; three years later his own name was in headlines across the façade of the old Herald Square Theatre. He was playing in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson...
...seemed depressed. All three came home early from a party to the place in which they had their respective apartments, one of those remodeled houses west of Fifth Avenue-a restaurant on the first floor, a dressmaking place on the second. The two girls lived across the hall from Actor Daly. Smoke woke them up in the night. The stairs were on fire...
...Chief's car came round the corner. The driver ran upstairs in the next building and climbed across a ledge to their window. When the ladders came he handed one girl to a fireman and carried the other down himself. The crowd cheered. Now the girls remembered the actor. A fireman went back for him. He found him sitting in his pajamas in a chair by the window. He was dead. His body was burned but recognizable. There was no indication in his attitude of any struggle, or in his face of any suffering...