Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1927, Page 22

22 FAILURE IS BARED INUSHER'S DEATH Man Who Inherited Fame and Fortune Passes Away in Park. By the Associated Prees. NEW YORK, August history of a man who inhes and fortune, lost both and than a decace held an obscure posi- ticn as usher in a Broadway theater stood revealed today as the body of Roe, 53, lay in the morgue ing an autopsy. Roe, designer of the Riverside Drive Viaduct above Grant's Tomb | #nd son of Rev. E. P. Roe, novelist, | was found dead vesterday in a lonely | section of Central Park, the body propped between two rocks. A few | dollars. a watch and some letters were | all that the pockets of the cheap | clothing contained. Inherited Fortune. After Inheriting a_considerable for- | tune from his father, Roe gained | laurels of his own when, at the age | he was appointed consulting | of the Riverside Drive For_his services it was said | ved $75,000, an amount then | considered quite large. At e height of his success he mar- | ried Miss Frances Doniphan Thorn- ton in 1905 and the guests at the wedding included many persons of prominence. He was a prominent | figure in New York social life until a year later. Word then came from The life fame r more | of 27, engineer project. he recei California that his wife had ob‘ained | a divorce and for scveral years his | friends did not hear from him. It was said that he went to South America, where he lost both heaith and fortune. | Death Due to Asthma. | In 1913 he returned, sceking em- | plovment. A job as porter of the | Palace Theater was offered and he | quickly accepted. His diligence soon | won him a place as usher and the: the post of head usher. Physicians _established that hi death apparently was due to asthma Friends advanced the theory that he | had gone to the park and propped | himself up in the cool, secluded spot | because his condition made is impos. | sible for him to sleep while lying | down. | EXCHANGE ARMY MEN. U. S. and Japan Trade Military Officers for Study. | In accordance with an agreement | between the United States and Japan for the mutual exchange of military training of officers of either country, studying the language of the other, it has been arranged that three officers of the Japanese army shall take courses at special schools of the Unted States Army. They are Maj. Yuzaburo Hata, who will attend the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Okla.; Maj. Toshijiro Ta- keuchi, who will attend the Tank School at Camp Meade, Md., and Capt. Masachika Hirata, who will serve with an Infantry regiment at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. Maj. Take- uchi has just completed a tour of duty with the 24 Division at Fort Sam Houston and Maj. Hata a tour with the railroad regiment of the Coast Artillery at Fort Eustis, Va. Three officers of the United States Army are now taking a course of study with units of the Japanese army. By the Associated Press. Campbell, called “Mrs. Pat,” is making a num- ber of addresses in England in an ef- fort to save the diction of the Brit- ish stage from | spoken in the easy style of the lounge. i | thorough training of more experi- | enced players, fail to speak distinctly ! enough fo make themselves heard, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1927. Mrs. Pat Campbell Touring England In Campaign to Save Diction of Stage LONDON, August 25.—Mrs. Patrick who hates to be, but is, “being overwhelmed the jerky naturalism” into which says so many youthful actors ar g in the belief that plays, es ultra-modern plays, must be the famous ory.” Many modern actors, who lack the » declares, and seem utterly in- nificant to their audiences because | i | Medical War and reac of their forced efforts to be realistic and natura She hat much of the so-called raturalness on the stage of today is little short of carelessness and lack of traingpg. and pleads for more “vocal color.” CoETR Maj. Walker Resigns. Resignation of Maj. John E. Walker, Army Medi stationed at the A y Medi Center, Walter Reecd General Hospital, has been accepted | by the President to take effec | ber 20. Maj. 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