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Life without Father. Father's name was Devlan, not Fowler. He was an apprentice patternmaker in the machine shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mother sang a rich soprano in the choir of the Methodist Church. Not long after their marriage in 1889, Father decided that he had had all he could stand. Without even waiting to see whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he cleared out for the mountains of Clear Creek County, west of Denver. The boy grew up and never laid eyes on Charlie Devlan until he was 30 and Charlie...
...automobile collision at Azusa, Calif., Thomas Leo McCarey, cinema director (The Awful Truth, Ruggles of Red Gap), and Gene Fowler (born Eugene Devlan), journalist, author (The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line, Illusion in Java), were burned by gasoline flames. Director McCarey had a fractured skull, Writer Fowler injuries to back and chest. First to recover, Fowler telephoned his agent, offered him 10% of his cuts...
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