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NO 3 Last Photo of Peter W53 “ S'1 ' f' £ ' N vh NO 2 Htndiom LONDON sophisticated blase Chelsea GAY shocked and appalled recently by a strange series of tragedies in its midst Four popular members of the colony which consists of artists actors and writers were within the space of a few weeks victims of suicide or murder At first the colony was puzzled as well as horrified Then friends remembering certain events in the recent lives of the four began to link them up into a grim chain that now helps to explain why— -Eardley Cotterill handsome young killed himself after engineer-scientibeautiful $ctresa death his to shooting wife Margery -- He- - H as £ rt waMWwv ’' iX ' W V wc A i J S V znr Xyx J $ xlsrvw S I V ested in Mary Chaddock but she insisted she could be only his friend This together with the Cotterill tragedy may have explained why a short time later London was shocked to learn of the death by gas poisoning of Peter Warlbck These two unhappy events in turn inspired Mary Chaddock to take her “exit cue” She had been cheated grim of romance The niece of the famous Captain Webb who first swam the English Channel she was very popular Two years ago at Derby School she met actoiEullum She fell in love with him but her love was not reciprocated Certainly it was not because of her Because of Her Unrequited Herself well-know- "£ j vaSS ROMANCE PASSED HER BY ThU I Pretty Mary Chaddock Popular Artists Model as Tribly She KUled Well-Know- st W ":v THE LAST ACT Scene from Hamlet" in Which Marjorie Cotterill Made Her Final 3tace Appearance at Ophelia She I the Top Figure at Right The Reclining Figure in the Foreground la was in love with Miss n Her Father the English Actor Gerald It was a Chaddock Lawrence strange tangle that n reached its climax in death and it is comPeter Warlock the that the tragedy of the Cotterills suicide committed likely by inhaling poser had an indirect link with the other gas deaths celebrated Miss Mary Chaddock The Cotterills had been married only in known model and popularly artists' Bohemia as “Molly took her own life a year but were living apart He was discouraged his letters revealed She without leaving behind an explanation had stage ambitions Her father GerThe four had been close friends ald Lawrence and her mother Fay There was a fifth person in the group Davis are among London's most fahandsome Charles Cullum who toured She appeared with mous stage folk the United States in the role of Capown in his father her presentation of the famous in tain Stanhope play Shakespearean plays was MisS Chaddock End” “Journey’s One morning Cotterill came to tha In love with Cullum he was in love with someone else and Peter Warlock Lawrence home and asked to see his - Warlock the Famous Whose Tragic Composer English Death Startled London He Was Mary Chaddock’ Friend a y V ""WSllL Eardley Cottcrill: a Daetr Behind All Hie Gayety W Him Bride with Hi Took He to Die so v - fi & - "4£V f v: HV w:' - rsf JSX l Sr- vv- X x r V '-- f 'C V X V v -- £& w1" $wr j " F SV S ® Love for Handsome Charles Cullum She Famous Actor Shown in Inset Was the Fourth to Go wife In the living room the two argued for nearly three hours didWhat not they said the girl’s parents know Suddenly they heard shots and rushing into tne living room found their daughter dead on the floor and her husband dying Peter Warlock heard of thi3 fate that befell his friends and it must have He was inter preyed on his mind lack of beauty for her face appeared in countless advertisements ' Finally Cullum was forced to Chad-doc- k break his friendship with Mary She refused to reconcile herself however but wrote letters and tried to see him until he sought a court order restraining her Then he went to the United States to appear triumphantly in “Journey’s End” n Mary Chaddock 'was and her last desire to live snapped when she learned that Cullum had married a New York girl Miss Manya Gaines So the last link In this strange chain of Bohemian friendship broke as Mary Chaddock turned on the gas in her rooms Chelsea is still too aghast to begin to think of the big gap that the four tragedies will leave in the ranks of its gayest most popular residents grief-stricke- Ksia te" '' 'Jr W'V V fif-- - i stranded in the valley — Jr oJ Thaairical Agent Ralph Farnum HollyPhotographed with a Winsome wood Girl Just Before He Left Los Angeles-- and Disappeared in the Desert N OT long ago tourists going off the beaten tracks of Death Valley stumbled on the skeleton of a human being half buried in the sand At first the authorities believed it was the remains of Miss Thelma Mells who had mysteriously disappeared in the valley nearly three years before Later however Mis3 Mells appeared and reported she was very much alive and working as a trapeze artist Shortly before that Ralph G Farnum prominent New York theatrical agent disappeared in the valley while The first inkling seeking his health that he was “lost” came when one of his burros staggered into the little mining town of Darwin on the western side or the Panamint Mountain range A great search resulted in him being found in a Piute Indian village on the edge of the desert “sink” where the Indians had given him care While these two cases were solved mystery of the satisfactorily the bleached human skeleton of a woman remains It is the very latest warning to tourists that “the land God forgot” has lost none of its old treachery mystery or danger of desolate land This strip fifty miles long and 276 feet below sea level has become a playground for But they sometouring thrill hunters times forget that the name Death Valley is still a reminder of the fate of a who perished party of “Forty-niners- ” there of thirFt Today the travele is in as much danger of losing his life as ' ' - the desert trekkers were fifty years ago Scarcely a day passes but someone is lost in the desert’s heat and vastness But for tho rush of rescuers many of them never would be seen again The news that someone is stranded out in the valley is like the cry of “man overboard” at sea Only a few weeks ago Miss Holda Marsh and Miss Nell Bate librarians of the University of Southern California set out in an automobile for ranch of “Death Valthe milion-dollThey became lost and ley Scotty” after driving for hours curled up in their car to sleep They did not know however that during Winter the valley is as correspondingly cold at night as it is hot by day The radiator of the car froze They could not stir it so they walked equipped with only a little food After two days of wandering worn out and almost near death they stumbled into a surveyor’s camp and were given first aid What the novice doesn’t realize is that the threat of death lies not only in the lack of water but in the actual There are burning up of the lungs hundreds of instances where victims had sufficient water but were incautious enough to walk through the sands during the heat of the day Breathing hot air when the temperature is 125 to 140 degrees burns up the lung tissue Besides the insufferable heat there are strange insects These include huge flies green and poisonous which infest some sections There are instances where bitea from strange insects resulted in insanity to victims Not long ago a party of five Los Angeles tourists while crossing the valley were attacked by a swarm of he insects They were almost near death when they finally reached civili- zation One member of the party was f'l-- ZLk '! ’ ar y This Photo of Mrs Maybollo Farnum Was Taken Before Her Husband Disappeared in Death Valley Later He Was Found So She's Entitled to the Charming Smile perils Desert rats who have set foot m no other section for a score of years frequently become enmeshed when the trails with which they are familiar are hidden by drifts of sand and their brother prospectors must set out to rescue them “Death Valley” Jack Nickerson is another old prospector whose life is the necesfrequently interrupted with reaches to sity of going into the sandy f He was able to scent out s he whereabouts of many nmm&m' and through his persons who were-los- t own efforts has actually saved fifty persons from death in the inferno “Dad” Fairbanks never had to be asked twice to aid in a manhunt and although his own life has been at stake many times not once has he taken a penny's reward from the sufferers he has rescued The pitiless desert i3 no fortunately respecter of persons but it has spared “Dad” to aid in the rescue of others Novices at touring the valley are not the only ones who succumb to its The Tiny Automobile Set Against the Hills in This Photo Gives Some Idea of the Dreary Desolate Vastness of Death Valley driven temporarily insane R J “Dad” Fairbanks one of the most grizzled and lovable of all the heterogeneous collection of human beings who comprise the list of desert rats in that country has for twenty-fiv- e years been saving persons ii V An Old Wagon Wheel and Cattle Bones — Mute Testimony of Star vation in the Treacherous Valley Here is a Grave Where a Woman's Skeleton Recently Found In Death Buried It Is a Tragie Valley W Warning "of tho Desert's Danger save unwary travelers Death Valley hasn’t changed It is one place that civilization has not entirely conquered except in spots Yet because of its excellent Winter climate two luxurious hotels have been con structed there The visitor to these places finds the' valley a beautiful strange and compelling place — where there Is no dan- ger as lon£ as one uses ordinary caution and sticks to the main road Signs warn tourists against going into bypaths The main routes of travel are sufficiently attractive — and safe—for the most exacting tourist But once one gets off the highway— look out I ' f Primitive Beauty and Modem Ugliness Are Contrasted Here are two views of boats one a primitive but vinta (or native fishing craft) the other HERE a modern but ugly tugboat Both of these craft are used for practical purposes Yet the Moro fishing in the waters of the Sulu ’ room Archipelago southwest of the Philippines finds and time for beauty The exquisite design on the sail doesn’t help the boat to move fast but the “uncivilized” Moro has gone to the pains to make it attractive Contrast that placid picture with the tugboat a product of “civilization” It is grimy and raucous Yet it leads great liners to and from their piers draws heavy dredges through choppy waters The civilized white man might ask why the Moro sailboat But the doesn’t modernize his slow Moro might also wonder why the white man does not paint his tugboat with pretty designs aw v w W ff r if f " out-mod- ed r A - f J ' ii wJ I Vitjrsr: Jdi ' S ' - ’ v ir - ' J' '' V i jf y n - s'z- - - ‘ 4 4 t - ' vv y f — V A Compare This Copyright Ugly 1931 Noisy Tug-bo- at Civilization with—— IntrnUccl Featur Eerrlc Product of lae - Modern Great Britain Right Beamed ' V A v v' v v ’ j r 1 This Frail and Beautiful But Not So Modern “Vinta” or Fishing Boat Used by the Primitive Morv |