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Show MAURICE BARRYMORE DIES AT SAH1TARIM NEW TORK. March 25. Maurice Bar-rymore. Bar-rymore. the actor, died today at a sanitarium sani-tarium at Amltyvllle, L. I. With the passing of Maurice Barrymore the stage has lost ok of Its best players. 'Barry,"' ss be waa called, was at his best In romantic roles. In the role of the dashing Captain In "The Heart of Mary-lend" Mary-lend" he excelled. m ' He was a popular idol on and off the stage. As a wit he excelled and was famous fa-mous ac a ranconteur. Dashing, debonair debo-nair and handsome, he was In full truth an imposing figure. His wife. Oeorgle Drew Barrymore, was as famous as her distinguished husband. Their cniidren Imve a uccome c- -i brltles. They are "Jack," the Irving embodiment em-bodiment of his father, Lionel ana ithel Parry-more. . His breakdown at the Harlem music hall In New York was pathetic. Trying to live two days in every twenty-four ' hours killed Barrymore. After a distressing scene at the Lamb's club he was removed to Amltyvillo, L. I. Everything wss done for him, but -the best skilled specialists could do nothing. He was suffering from paresis in Its virulent and worst stage. And Barrymore has gone the way of gcanlon! Their cases are alike. Up to the last Barrymore dreamed of returning to the stage once more. But weak, emaciated ema-ciated and tottering in mind, he kept himself him-self alive through sheer nerve power. His rr.lnd was virtually a blank. The frequent visits -paid him by his children he did not understand, for he could not recognise them. ' . , SBlaBBSBBBSBSBBSSBSSBBSSSaSSSSBSBBBBBBBSBaSSBaBBSSJSBBBBBSSBBSa |