Word: juliets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Faversham, 72, Gibson Girl-era matinee idol; of coronary thrombosis; in Bay Shore, N. Y. Romeo to Maude Adams' Juliet, best remembered as The Squaw Man, thrice-married Faversham made and lost several fortunes, declared himself bankrupt in 1935, and in 1937 entered the Percy Williams Home for destitute actors...
...occasionally, as in his description of the suite occupied by Andy Deacon, the following winter, at a Park Avenue hotel: "Across the room was a Gothic stone fireplace composed of an entire castle transported from Normandy." Here Andy casts his company for a touring production of Romeo and Juliet in modern dress. Helpful Beth is taken on as a page and understudy to the star. On that famous lady and on the supporting cast Lewis lavishes his gift for satiric characterization and incident as the troupe journeys from one-night stand to one-night stand in the Midwest...
Last November Manhattan's tabloids fished up a new Romeo & Juliet tale for their yearning millions. George Lowther 3rd, 30-year-old café socialite, and pretty, 20-year-old Eileen Herrick were in love. Eileen's father disapproved of George, kept Eileen locked up at home. On a writ of habeas corpus George haled Eileen & father into court (TIME, Nov. 27), got legal sanction for his courtship. But Father Herrick spirited Eileen away, frustrating George, delighting Manhattan's millions...
...hospital after an operation for appendicitis, Eileen Herrick stole away from home, met George Lowther. Shepherded by a Daily News reporter, with two Daily News cameramen in attendance, they fled to Conway, N. H. by plane and motor. While rival newsmen gnashed their teeth in impotent rage, Romeo & Juliet wrote a happy ending (exclusive in the Daily News), were married at last...
...YORK--Eileen Herrick and George Lowther 3rd--remember their famous Romeo and Juliet didoes back in 1939? "cloped to get married" today, the dashing young boulevardier's attorney announced tonight...