Show I Noted Noted Author Author Dies j jJ 4 1 J c. c h. h I. I It Stroke Fatal to toJ toJ J I K I. Jerome Was Essayist Actor Playwright 1 Play Elay- wright for Period of F Forty Years orty ears NORTHAMPTON r England June 14 AP- AP Jerome AP-Jerome Jerome K IC Jerome noted British a author thor dl died d at a local ocal hospital hospital hos lios- pital today today from irom cerebral hemor hemor- N Mr l Mr Jerome who was perhaps best known mo n for his Three Thre Men In Ina Ina Ina a Bo Boat Beit was stricken n Janu January ry 6 while motor tour and was placed In a hospital here While his condition continued continued contin contin- serious recent report were to totI tI tIe the et effect ci that he lie e had pad b be been n h im- im m- m dail daily and arid new news nes of yf f his ls d death ath m a. a f a Jf r e men one boat on a river holiday holiday- cr crUise crUise- In England endeared Jerome K Jerome to 10 the En English reading world at the beginning of the SOs placing a clerk Who lurn master and then author fn In the front rank of English humorists For years the adventures of J Three Men Menn in n a Boat have been ava available in every shop in America England and many other countries although the Englishman noted fora for fora a suave and whimsical felicity ty of style was also identified with the stage and I The son of the Rev Jerome Clapp Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in May 2 1859 and received his lila education in En n n- n gland First a clerk the then a schoolmaster schoolmaster schoolmaster school school- master Jerome later turned turned actor r rand and finally Journalist becoming the heT editor of The Idler and both English publications His His' Idle Thoughts of an Idle J. J e el l Fellow ellow The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Three Men on on n the Bummel Tea Table Talks and Idle Ideas were among his best known books Of Ot his his- plays his plays The Passing of ot the Third Floor Back achieved a widespread popularity as did did Fanny lanny and the Servant Problem Jerome appeared In the United States Stales on lecture tours tours' twenty years ago and after the World var war he urged n a n peace without hate With others he signed an appeal asking that th the peace terms tens be modified |