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Once there was an Englishman named Fortunatus Augustus Scudamore. He wrote atrocious Victorian melodramas, and it served him quite right when in 1907 his daughter Margaret married an actor chap named Roy Redgrave. The marriage was a bad show, but before it closed in Australia three years later, Roy and Margaret had inadvertently established a simply smashing theatrical dynasty. It has flourished in England for three decades, but within the last year the Redgraves have been recognized on both sides of the Atlantic as the first family of stage and screen: the nearest thing to the Barrymores that...
...then will probably be final, will not affect their professional relationship. The girls now have everything going for them, including the rumbustious new scene in cinema. The way things have turned out, after all, would surely cause a silent tear of joy to course down the whiskery cheek of Fortunatus Augustus Scudamore...
...American Boy's most famed fiction character is Marcus Aurelius Fortunatus Tidd, who first appeared in 1913 while his creator, Clarence Budington Kelland, was managing editor. A Mark Tidd serial is still running in the magazine. Mark Tidd...
...March 21, 1738, a disquieting influence disrupted the pleasant round of Mr. Bulkeley's dissatisfactions. His daughter Mary, who was apparently not very bright, wrote requesting "speedy consent of her being marryed" to a stranger named Mr. Fortunatus Wright, a brewer from Liverpool. Precisely what happened remains unclear, for Mr. Bulkeley scratched out a long passage in his diary, but "in plain English," states Editor Roberts, "Mr. Wright had seduced Mary Bulkeley." The young couple came to live with the squire, disappeared, returned, left their daughter for him to raise. But by 1746 Fortunatus Wright was famed throughout Great...
...Fortunatus Jovannovicz Bagocius de Bogaczewski will speak in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House, on Monday evening at 8 o'clock under the auspices of the Social Service Committee. His subject will be "The Lawrence Strike and the Education of the Foreigner." Mr. Bagocius is an authority on Lithuanian immigration and labor conditions in America. He was born in Lithuania but, incurring the displeasure of the Russian government because of his radical ideas, he early fled to Germany and thence came to America. He is now assistant editor of a Lithuanian paper in Boston...