Show I Career Ends c x A JOHN GILBERT Called Great Lover DEATH CLAIMS JOHN GILBERT Noted Actor Expires of Heart Attack HOLLYWOOD HOLLY Jan 9 UP- UP John Gilbert dapper screen lover lovci and playboy of Hollywood died to today today today to- to day in his home homo on Tower Grove Grov drive on the outskirts of the film colony Members of rescue squad 15 o othe ol of the Hollywood fire tire department worked for Cor an hour in an effort to tc rekindle a spark of life in the noted actor after a summons from the thc Gilbert home The effort failed and It was announced that GUbert was vas dead dead apparently apparently from heart disease Gilbert had been ill since Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas confined to his bed most of the time ime for tor almost three weeks He was vas reclining in bed this morning a nurse beside him when the fatal attack struck him My men worked over Gilbert for more than an hour but it was no use Captain A. A A. A Petersen of the inhalator squad said I 1 believe he died lied of heart disease Virginia Bruce who divorced Gilbert Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert in 1934 was prostrated with grief This is the most terrible shock Ive I've ever known s she he sobbed I 1 cant can't believe that Jack has gone Her studio telephoned word of Gilberts Gilbert's death to Miss Bruce at it the worth North Hollywood home where she lives ives with year old Suzan Ann Gilbert Gilbert Gil Gil- bert their daughter She has the childs child's custody John Gilbert was perhaps the most ramous famous amous of Utah's sons eons and daughters daugh- daugh ers who rose to success and fortune foru for- for tune une u e In motion pictures Born July Jub 10 10 1897 1891 in Logan Gilbert Gilert Gilert Gil- Gil bert ert had a heritage for Cor the drama His Ells father was Walter Vater B B. Gilbert who vho played on the Salt Lake City tage stage with th the late Willard Villard Mack and nd who later became manager of n L s stock tock company in Portland Ore His mother was was Sarah Ida Apperley Ap- Ap perley erley Gilbert who also was well known cnown on the stage She was regarded re- re as one of the best known cading women in iii stock of her day and nd like her husband had played with Mack also a Utahn Utah Childhood Only the first five years of John Gilberts Gilbert's childhood were spent in Logan jogan ogan His family moved to Portland Port- Port and land Ore where he went to elementary elementary ele ele- dc- dc and high school Later he received what he once called ailed a transient education attending at- at ending tending schools in several parts of he the country including the Hitchcock Hitchock Hitchock Hitch- Hitch ock cock Military academy at San Rafae Ra- Ra fae ac ael Cal As a small boy Gilbert became and while in his teens was vas ras a member of his fathers father's stock company in Portland Played ii in Stock He also was a member of a stock company in Seattle and later of one onen in n Cincinnati Gilbert tried his hand at several Continued on Pace Two Column One HEATH EAI CLAIMS JOHN GILBERT 1 Continued from Pap Page Pi ft One callings before joining tho Holly Holly- LOOd forces in the e early d days ya of movies when Thomas Tho tas H. H Ince lace was waa the leading and pioneer figure In Inthe the ilie Industry He tried Illustrating with the Portland Oregonian then went rent to San Francisco where he worked for forthe tho B. B F. F Goodrich Rubber comp com coin p pany ny I 1 Began as Extra He Ha Joined the Ince forces In 1915 I. I beginning as an extra In mob scenes nes nea After a year year-he was cast castin In a leadIng leading lead lead- ing lag role fole In a a. William S. S Hart Hat picture plc pic ture ure Apostle of It Vengeance After making making- several pictures for Ince inco rn e i 1 ho t tried s 's scenario enario writing but by lP his own admission even make mali tho the world worM fl flutter and re returned xe- xe turned tuned to acting After half a dozen years In inov- inov esh attained the most famous point In his career and success followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed success e s. s During this time he hi played ed In films I s with the other more famous a t stars rs of ot th that t day including Mary Pickford and Hope Hampton Portrayed Count One Ono of ot his best remembered films of ar the early eary w was waz the Count I of Ct f Monte fonte Cristo In which he lie e played the title role I Gilbert was wa at the pea peak peak-of tor his career ar er when Elinor Ellnor Glyn's novels were Were read by thousands He H. starred J in the film flint presentation of or one His Hour r T Ten years ago he made what was regarded as u his most moat famous pi picture pic plc- ture The Big Parade which In Incidentally In- In was vas one of ot his last before the talkies obscured his star Last Here Hue In 1914 IOU Gilbert married three times to movie actresses Leatrice Joy Ina Tha InaClaire Cl Claire ir an and Virginia Bruce Each marriage ended in divorce Gilbert had not visited Salt Lake City ity s since 1914 when his mother died ded here |