Word: ruth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...died as he had lived-violently, sensationally and in squalor. The operator of a cheap rooming house near the Bowery found Bodenheim, 60, and his third wife, Ruth Fagan, 35, dead in a sleazy furnished room. The poet sprawled on the floor, a paperback copy of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us propped awkwardly on his chest, covering a .22-cal. bullet hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock...
...alcoholic. He flapped disconsolately around the Village resting up periodically in the Bellevue alcoholic ward, sleeping in gutters, hallways and subways (TIME, Feb. 18, 1952). On a rainswept night three years ago, he met his third wife, a writer of sorts, in the middle of Washington Square. Ruth Fagan had a simple explanation for the meeting: "He had an umbrella and I didn...
...RUTH C. PHILIPSON Utica...
...love Ruth Draper," wrote Henry Adams to a friend. "She is a little genius and quite fascinates me." When Adams wrote in 1911, the 26-year-old actress was still an amateur, reciting in people's drawing rooms. Then, as always, she created her own material; only once in her life appearing in a play, Ruth Draper at length became the most finished of professionals, without exhibiting the vices and vulgarities of professionalism. Thus, she has never sought in her sketches to keep up with the times, and so has never fallen behind them...
Last week Ruth Draper, 69, began a "farewell Broadway engagement"-while remarking that "the farewell engagement is a standing joke in the business." All the same, it was a reminder that an irreplaceable theater figure would not be an eternal one. Ruth Draper has soundly insisted that she is no mere monologist or diseuse; she describes herself as a character actress. In any case, she is with every slightest word, gesture and accent the character she is portraying. And with amazing, quick changes, she can be a featherbrained society woman, a bewildered immigrant, a spare, porch-sitting down-easter...