Paul Dickey (1882 - 1933)

Born 12 May 1882 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Inez Plummer — married 26 Jun 1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York, USA

Died 7 Jan 1933 at age 50 in New York City, New York, United States

Biography

Paul Dickey is Notable.

Obituary

His obituary in the Los Angeles Times^[1] is as follows:

"DICKEY, AUTHOR OF PLAYS, DIES

Heart Attack Fatal to Film and Stage Notable

Writer Also Was Known for Football and Aviation

Musical Comedy 'Rose-Marie' Won Wide Attention

Paul Dickey, 48-year-old figure in the theater and motion-picture worlds for twenty years, a Beverly Hills resident of 119 North Elm Drive, died yesterday in the Fraternity Club, New York City.

Death, according to eastern dispatches, resulted from a heart attack.

He left Hollywood, where he had been connected with several studios as a story expert, last October for New York to arrange for production on a new stage play.

His secretary, Elsey Horner of 6376 Yucca street, Hollywood, said yesterday that Dickey's body probably will be cremated and his ashes returned to his parent's cemetery plot in Pine Island, Minn.

ON NOTED GRIDIEON TEAM

The playwright, actor and stage director also was widely known in the athletic world, having been a halfback on the famous "point-a-minute" football teams of 1903 and 1904 of University of Michigan. He was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity there.

During the World War Dickey became a flying instructor in the United States marines, later going overseas for eighteen months of active battle service. He was noted throughout the Marine Corps for having carried as a passenger a pet dog on his sky-battle flights.

Dickey probably was best known in the theater world for his musical comedy, "Rose-Marie." He collaborated with Charles Goddard and Mann Page on plays in which Francine Larrimore and Elsie Janis appeared. They included "The Misleading Lady," "The Back Slapper," "Miss Information" and "The Broken Wing."

ACTED WITH EDESON

As an actor he appeared with Robert Edeson in "Strongheart" and with Henrietta Crosman in "Sham." He was a member of the Lambs Club and the American Dramatist Guild.

H. B. Warner, local actor, appeared in Dickey's first play, "Ghost Breaker," written the year Dickey left the university.

His widow, Inez Plummer, formerly leading lady in one of his plays, from whom he had been separated since 1927, resides in Philadelphia.

Basil Dickey, also a writer, a brother, and Mrs. James Doolittle, a sister, wife of a local photographer, reside here."

Sources

1. ↑ DICKEY, AUTHOR OF PLAYS, DIES. (1933, Jan 09). Los Angeles Times (1923-Current File) Retrieved from http://ezproxy.lapl.org/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/163091292?accountid=6749

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• "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MSSG-YG8 : accessed 6 December 2015), Paul Dickey in household of Frank H Dickey, Precinct 18 South Town (incl. Illinois Women's Soldiers Home) Chicago city Ward 4, Cook, Illinois, United States; citing sheet 6A, family 93, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,240,248.
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