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Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets...
Discovered at the Home for Incurables in The Bronx was one of the great Victorian illustrators, 85-year-old Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said. The lace-and-velvet wrapped little hero's fame had obscured everything else the artist had done. At present, he admitted, "you can say that I'm just a little hors de combat...
...recently graduated from the University of Texas with an all-A rating and a PBK key to boot. Six feet two and 200 pounds make Ettlinger no anemic Lord Fauntleroy, but although he is interested in organic chemistry he has yet found no attractions in the opposite...
Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the Black Eagle of Harlem who once challenged Hermann Goring to an air duel, once cracked up Haile Selassie's plane at the royal feet, enlisted in the U.S. Army as a private. "My blood tests," he reported to the press, "came back perfect, negative, and excellent...
...audience and am inspired," she said. "There was no inspiration performing for an audience of one. ... I would be crying, but all he would say was: 'Take it off! Take it off!' ': Of Price's harmonica style she declared: "It stifled me." -/ As Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, Negro flier-of-fortune, waved good-by to his wife Essie in front of her Harlem apartment, a process server thrust into his surprised hand papers notifying him of her suit against him for separation. She asked $30 a week