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- David Fulton Karsner was born on 13 March, 1889, at Baltimore Maryland, the son of Cecil J. and Annetta Karsner. About a year after Karsner's birth, President Benjamin Harrison appointed his father general appraiser of the Port of Baltimore. By the end of the nineteenth century, Karsner would be living in a Baltimore orphanage and attending a school for underprivileged boys.
Karsner began his newspaper career at the age of seventeen covering the stock yards of Chicago. There he met and became friends with Sinclair Lewis, who was doing research for his book "The Jungle". While at Chicago he also became acquainted with Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Sherwood Anderson and Clarence Darrow. Karsner later worked on the New York Tribune, The Philadelphia Ledger, the New York Daily News, the New York Post and the socialist paper, the New York Call. He also wrote a column on the demise of American Socialism in the form of an obituary.
David Karsner is best remembered as a writer of biographies. His best seller, "Silver Dollar" (1932), told the story of Horace Austin Warner Tabor (1830-1899), who made a fortune in silver and was ruined by gold. Karsner also wrote, "Horace Traubel: His Life and Work" (1919), "Debs; his authorized life and letters from Woodstock prison to Atlanta" (1919), "Talks With Debs In Terre Haute. (And Letters from Lindlahr)" (1922) "Sixteen Authors to One: Intimate Sketches of Leading American Storytellers" (1928), "Andrew Jackson the Gentle Savage" (1929) and "John Brown: Terrible Saint" (1934),
While Horace Traubel (1858-1919) was in Canada attending a dedication of a huge granite cliff that was to be named "Old Walt" in honor of Walt Whitman, he wrote Karsner in New York: "Here safe. Tired. Hopeful. . . Tired still. Damned tired. God damned tired." Traubel, who had not been well, passed away a few days later.
In 1911 Karsner married socialist Rumanian émigré, Rose Greenberg (1889-1968). After the Russian Revolution she became active in the communist movement and later married James P. Cannon, national chairman of the American Socialist Workers party. Five months after his first marriage ended, Karsner married Esther Eberson (1890-1982) on 5 May, 1922, at Newark, New Jersey. Esther later illustrated Karsner's "Andrew Jackson the Gentle Savage" with four pen drawings and assisted him as a proofreader.
David Fulton Karsner died on 20 February, 1941, at the Downtown Hospital in New York after suffering a heart attack. He was survived by his wife Esther and Walta Karsner Ross (1914-2000), a daughter from his first marriage. Shortly before his death he told some newspaper friends, who were visiting him at the hospital, that if they didn't see him again to remind the copy clerk that the name, David Karsner, "just fits into a Number 4 head". The next day the New York Post ran his obituary with a Number 4 headline. - Director
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Lorimer Johnston was born on 2 November 1858 in Maysville, Kentucky, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Envoy Extraordinary (1914) and Tarzan the Mighty (1928). He was married to Caroline Frances Cooke. He died on 20 February 1941 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
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Walter Greene was born in 1872 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Life's Whirlpool (1916), The Port of Missing Girls (1928) and The Light on Lookout Mountain (1926). He died on 20 February 1941 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, USA.- Soundtrack
Mary-Rose-Anne Travers was born 4 June 1894 in Newport, Gaspésie in Québec. Born into a large family of Irish (Lawrence Travers) and French Canadian (Adéline Cyr) descent, he left home at 13 to earn her living in Montreal. A gifted child, she had learned easily to play the violin, the harmonica, the button accordion, and the jew's-harp. To pay for her trip to Montreal she played the violin in the main street of Newport while selling Red Pills - a patent medicine. In Montreal she worked at first as a domestic, then married Édouard Bolduc, a plumber, on 17 Aug 1914 and raised a large family. She began to perform publicly out of economic necessity.
After she accompanied the singer Ovila Légaré in a recording session, she was recommended to Conrad Gauthier, organizerof the Veillées du bon vieux temps at the Monument National. She was engaged at first as a violoneuse, but in 1927 Gauthier encouraged her to sing for the first time in public. Such was her success that Gauthier suggested that she compose some songs. Though she was scarcely known, her recordings of 'La Cuisinière' and 'La Servante,' issued on a Starr 78, quickly sold some 12,000 copies - a success unprecedented in Quebec at the time. There followed other songs and recordings which enjoyed great popularity because of their humour, frankness, and inimitable style of embellishment, with 'turlutages' or comic ritornelles produced by clicking the tongue against the palate. She performed tirelessly in Canada and the USA and continued to record, completing 85 songs on 43 78s for the Starr label before her death. Apex and MCA Coral have reissued many of her songs.
This likeable, joyous, and dynamic woman, composed her songs as she lived, wilfully, intuitively, guided by an uncommon sense of observation. She was Canada's first chansonnière in the true sense of the word, in that her verses deal with real life and, seen as a whole, reflect vividly the particular climate of the 1930s in Quebec. The daily problems and the material difficulties of ordinary people are reflected in her songs: 'Le Commerçant des rues,' 'L'Enfant volé,' 'Les Cinq Jumelles,' 'Les Colons canadiens,''La Grocerie du coin,' 'Les Agents d'assurance,' 'Les Conducteurs de chars,' and others.
In 1937, Mary and her troop members were victims of a car accident in the parish of Sacré-Coeur, near Rimouski. The singer survives with a double fracture of the right leg, broken nose, strong bruises and a concussion. She cancels the current tour, but decides to honor the contracts of the actors. As for the rest, she will suffer from aphasia and loss of memory for two long years, which affects her career. She died on February 20, 1941 at the age of 46 following cancer.- Costume Designer
Frantisek Kysela was born on 4 September 1881 in Kourim, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Frantisek was a costume designer, known for Svatý Václav (1930). Frantisek died on 20 February 1941 in Prague, Protektorát Cechy a Morava [now Czech Republic].