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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...autobiography he published two years ago under the title The Life Story of "N. R." or 40 Years of Rambling, Gambling and Publishing, Rumbling, Grumbling and Four-Flushing. Crudely written, paperbound, it read like a dime novel, sold for $1, proved the author to be a sentimental narcissist. Born in Nebraska of "tithing Baptists, Irish fighters and Yankee ne'er-do-wells," young Rounsevell was raised in upState New York, learned to chew tobacco before he was 12. took to sin early. (The skids to Hell were well greased and I slid down the incline as fast...
Died. William De Wolf Hopper, 77, oldtime actor; after long illness (heart disease); in Kansas City, where he had lately been mildly successful as a radio commentator at symphony concerts. New York-born, trained for law, he became a professional actor at New Haven in 1879, played with the Barrymores' grandmother (Louisa Lane Drew), spent more than half a century in the theatre, was noted chiefly for his Gilbert & Sullivan roles and his perennial recitals of "Casey at the Bat." He was unsuccessful in cinema, which he regarded as a "fleeting novelty." His six wives included Actresses Edna Wallace...
...Died. Fannie Coddington Browning, 83, U. S.-born daughter-in-law of Poet Robert Browning; in London. She married Robert Wiedemann Barrett ("Pen") Browning in 1887, left him six years later...
...Born near Geneva, Marat was the son of a poor chemist. He studied medicine in Scotland, became expert in several languages, took up science. Fearless, bitter, he possessed a quick, vivid pen, turned it to account, after the overthrow of the French monarchy, with violent and inflammatory pamphlets. He gradually became powerful as a spokesman for the extreme Left, the "true type," according to Joseph Shearing, "of the low agitator of the Paris gutters." Terribly ugly, 5 ft. tall but with an enormous head, he suffered with eczema so badly that it was commonly believed he had leprosy. Charlotte...
...Mabel accepted his courtship with greater interest after her father forbade her to see Karl again. By a queer sort of trick. Karl married her. They lived happily, keeping the marriage a secret until Mabel became pregnant. Then a second, public ceremony was arranged. Soon after his son was born Karl was accidentally killed while hunting, Mabel's father died and she started for Paris to forget...