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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Powell was class cheerleader when he went to Central High in Kansas City. His parents wanted him to be a lawyer, but he borrowed enough money from a rich and eccentric great-aunt to take a course in the New York Academy of Dramatic Arts. When he got a bit-part in a play called The Ne'er Do Well he wrote home such glowing accounts of his success on the stage that he was reluctant to ask for help when the play was taken off. After playing one-night stands in a variety of tank towns he settled...