Hill," "The Club of Queer Trades,". "The Innocence of Father Brown,". "Magic" (
play), "The Wisdom of. Father Brown," "Poems." "The. Crimes of England," "A ...
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THE NEW YORK SUN, MONDAY, JUNE 15, 1939.
K.CHESTERTON 1ES IN BRITAIN satile Author Succumbs at Age of 62.
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he liked it here, but he was not fond of the typical American village, where "the first thing you see are yellow tin advertisements, then tin buildings, then wooden buildings all plastered with advertisements, then framework of lead and glass and tin called shops—and, then, thank God, you are out of town." The omnipresence of the American press struck him. He declared that whenever he went people leaped out of boles and hedges and asked him, "How is Bernard Shaw?" He came to this country twice more, in 1930 and 1931.
Hassocks, Sussex. He was 78 years old. He had been living in Sussex in retirement since 1929. He had not been active in show business for over ten years. Surviving are his second wife, Blanche Harris Klaw, and two sons of his first marriage, Joseph Klaw of 330 Park avenue and Alonxo Klaw of AlmaIon Farms, Croton Falls, Westchester county. Mr. Klaw started out in 1881 as a lawyer in Louisville, Ky., where he had gone from his birthplace, Paducah, Ky. His first contact with the theater came when Gus 1 Frohman, brother of Charles ana ! Daniel, retained him to hunt ' pirates who were producing "Hazel Klrke" without paying royalties. The case focused his attention upon the theater and he gave up his practice of law to become, in Marc Klaw, formerly of the fa- the course of time, a New York mous theatrical firm of Klaw & showman. The firm of Klaw & Erlanger Erlanger, died yesterday of a heart waa formed in 1888 and offices attack following two days' illness at were set up at 23 East Fourteenth his home in England, Bracken Fell, Street near what waa then the
MARC KLAW ! IS DEAD AT 78 With Erlangcr He Was Once Noted Stage Producer.
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