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Died. Jeanne Eagels, 35, legitimactress, cinemactress, onetime (1925-28) wife of Edward Harris ("Ted'') Coy, famed Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many saw her recent cinema across the street. Born in Kansas City, Mo., her first part, aged seven, was "Puck" in a dancing school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. After trooping with tent shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, in which she played -'Little Eva," in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, she reached Manhattan in 1911, was given a small part in Jumping Jupiter, later toured with Julian Eltinge in The Crinoline Girl, with George Arliss in Disraeli (see p. 69). Meteoric was her success as Harlot Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham's Rain (1922). Although she missed but 15 performances in Rain's run of some five years, in her last play, Her Cardboard Lover, her performance became dilatory, then apperiodic, then sporadic. Failing to appear on the stage in Milwaukee and St. Louis, she was suspended for two seasons, fined two weeks' salary (some $3,600) by Actor's Equity. After the suspension she turned to cinema, appeared in Man, Woman & Sin, The Letter, Jealousy. Her suspension suspended, she had planned to reappear on Broadway before Christmas.
Died. Gustav Stresemann, German Foreign Minister; .at Berlin; of thrombosis (see p. 28).
Died. Konsul C. W. Kummer, 49, acting president of American Bemberg & Glanzatoff Corp. (rayon), director of British Bemberg, Ltd., Associated Rayon Corp., Kodak A. G. (German); at Elizabethton, Tenn.; by his own hand. He had been suffering acutely from gallstones. The local textile union "deferred any action for the present although there was some difference of opinion between the company and this organization." (See p.15.)