Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-07-02 | Page 3 | Avery Hopwood, U. S. Playwright, Drowns in France

Avery Hopwood US U.s. Playwright Drowns in France NICE France July 2 Avery AP-Avery Hopwood American playwright was drowned withIn sight of life savers and while the crowd on the beach beacht watched t last night lg at neS lne on the French c Hopwood apparently In good health w went nt s swimming at eIght o'clock soon after dInner He colla col col- la lapsed ed when far from the shore and drowned before help could reach him The playwright had been resting here after a a. short tour of Europe He Intended to leave for Paris In afew ew days days' and then return to New York I 4 the nf Graduating Graduating- from University Michigan In 1905 Avery Hopwood went to New York as specIal corr correspondent cor- cor r respondent for the nd Leader and almost Immediately sold his first play Clothes written In collaboration with Channing Pollock and produced In 1906 He was wast t twenty four years ears old at the time having been bean born In Cleveland In 1882 PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT PLAYWRIGHT From that time tor forward ward he was one of the most playwrights although in the last two or three seasons he had been an Infrequent contrIbutor to the broad broadway way stage Many lany of his farces tarces were adapted from the French and he was known for his Invention of diverting it If compromIsing sItuatIons for hIs heroInes His best known plays were Fair arid Warmer The Gold Diggers Diggers' and The nat whitten In tion with Mary Iary Roberts rt The Bat was one of the biggest money makers ever staged Hopwood's plays w wore re so universal sal In ap appeal aI that they were played with equal success throughout AmerIca Canada and the Orient Orient-In In Inthe the native tongues s. s Many rany f them were written n in collaboration with others Including Getting Oetting Gertle's Gerties Garter and The Girl in the LImousIne both with Wilson Collison Colli Colli- son and two with Mrs Irs Rhinehart Seven Days Das and SpanIsh Love SUCCESSFUL PLAYS His other successful plays Included The Deml Demi Naughty aughty Cinderella The Powers that Be ThIs Man and thIs Woman Woman Wo- Wo man Our Little Wife VUe Double Great IllusIon Exposure The Why Men tIen Leave Home Little Miss Bluebeard and The Harem Hopwood d was never married He leaves his mother Mrs James Hop Hop- wood of f Clevel nd who Is on her herway herway way to Nice where she expected to meet her son He had spent much ot of the last two years ears abroad When In New NewYork ew York he made hIs home at the Lambs club e