Word: tellegen
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...Angeles an impoverished, cancer-ridden man who once had been her husband had gone into a bathroom, stood before a mirror and stabbed himself seven times with a pair of common sewing scissors. Reporters telephoned Miss Farrar at her Ridgefield, Conn. home, asked for comment on Lou Tellegen's death. Her reply was characteristically candid: "Why should that interest...
...Tellegen was burned to ashes which, as a last theatrical gesture, he ordered sprinkled on the waves of the Pacific. Newspapers gave him gaudy obituaries,* told how at 15 he ran off with his father's mistress, how he specialized in love-making while he was successively a baker's assistant, a trapeze artist, a model for Auguste Rodin ("Eternal Springtime"), how he first arrived in the U. S. as Sarah Bernhardt's leading man. The final Hollywood picture was of a broken, hollow-eyed matinee idol who kept having his face lifted...
...Great Lover (by Leo Ditrichstein, Frederic & Fanny Hatton; C. E. Wee & J. J. Levanthal, producers). Rodin, for whom he modeled, never got Lou Tellegen into such extraordinary poses as those he strikes for himself on the stage. His latest part, created in 1915 by another famed matinee idol, Leo Ditrichstein, is the sort that Actor Tellegen, self-confessedly a mighty pre-War wooer, must adore. Action of this old pinchbeck piece takes place in an operatic troupe. The leading member of the company (Mr. Tellegen) falls in love with a young prima donna who has already pledged herself...
...Tellegen, actor, fell asleep in an Atlantic City hotel while smoking, was rescued from the blazing bed, taken to a hospital suffering burns on his hips. Against his physician's advice he appeared in the première of a new play, Overture...
Living Together. Lou Tellegen, actor, onetime husband of Geraldine Farrar; and one Eve Casanova, chorus girl; in Manhattan. Announced she last week: ''We are man and wife but we are never going to get married...