Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-04-04 | Page 18 | Noted Writer of Plays Dies

1 I NOTED WRITER OF PLAYS DIES HOLLYWOOD Cat Cal April 4 I- I JP- JP Wilson Mizner noted playwright anc and I promoter died late last night of at aheart a aheart heart attack after an illness of ot more than six months He was 58 His death followed by two months that of his brother Addison nationally known architect who died in Florida From Nome Alaska to Fla thousands knew the name 01 of Mizner They remembered him not only as a playwright but butas as a bon vivant raconteur and sportsman Mizner was a native of at California the son SOil of Lancing Bond Mizner a niner forty-niner who settled at Benecia where Wilson wa was born His father was named ambassador to Guatemala by President Harrison Wilson during his youth attended the National institute in in- in ill Guatemala city As a young oung man man Wilson went to Alaska where he established a trading post He was associated with the late Tex Rickard the two of them being among the first five white men to live in Nome After leaving Alaska Mizner went to New York where he wrote a number num num- ber plays Alias Jimmy Valentine The Deep Purple and The Only Law During the Florida land boom ncr nero with his brother Addison formed the Mizner Development company and sold more than worth o of ot real estate He returned to Cali- Cali ornia fornia six years ago to engage in writing for lor the screen 4 1 1