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Like many another famed cartoonist, Rea Irvin served his apprenticeship on a San Francisco newspaper.* After intermittent work on newspapers and as an itinerant actor, he gained prominence as the illustrator of Author Wallace Irwin's "Letters of a Japanese Schoolboy" in Life. The oriental stamp of his "Hashimura Togo" sketches has reappeared from time to time in burlesque kakemono (Japanese scroll pictures) which he prepares for the New Yorker, of which he is art director. Cartoonist Irvin will continue his series of funny advertisements for Murad ("Be Nonchalant") cigarets...
...Brooklyn's most famed Dougherty uses his first two names only, Walter Hampden. Actor Hampden's Brooklyn-born brother Paul, able artist, long since moved to Manhattan...
Married. Lionel Atwill, 45, actor; and Mrs. Louise Cromwell-Brooks McArthur, divorced wife of Maj.-General Douglas MacArthur, onetime superintendent of U. S. Military Academy; at Eccleston, Md. It is the third marriage for each...
Albert Carroll satirically skewered Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang with elaborate gesture and thin, cracked voice. Another famed actor taken up was Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who lately returned to Wanamaker's department store from the Police Commissionership of New York. Sings he (Philip Loeb...
Reburied. Charles S. Gilpin, Negro actor (Emperor Jones), buried May 12 but disinterred for more impressive burial in a silver-mounted coffin case, with chanting and eulogies. Said Actor Jesse A. Shipp (Green Pastures), oldtime fishing companion of Gilpin: "We have been criticized for disturbing the dead, but our friend was buried near a railroad track where the earth rumbled, and his bones could not rest in peace...