Springville Herald | 1946-06-06 | Page 2 | Dies Playing Eying Soldier Role

DIES PLAYING DYING-SOLDIER DYING-SOLDIER ROLE Los Angeles. While rehearsing rehears-ing an amateaur play, John Did-anoff, Did-anoff, 24, playing a : dying-soldier role, swallowed a harmless pill give.n him by Miss Lois Conklin, playing a nurse, as he occupied a make - believe, malaria - infested foxhole. Didahoff gasped realistically realis-tically and slumped to the floor. The play proceeded, the curtain fell and fellow student actors called to Didahoff to get up. Then they discovered, that Didahoff had died' of what doctors said was a heart attack.