Richard Walton Tully | |
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Born | May 7, 1877 |
Died | February 1, 1945 | (aged 67)
Nationality | American |
Education | University of California |
Occupation | Playwright |
Spouse | Eleanor Gates[1] |
Richard Walton Tully (May 7, 1877 – February 1, 1945) was an American playwright.
Tully was born on May 7, 1877, in Nevada City, California. Tully was married to another playwright Eleanor Gates until he divorced her in 1914.[1]
His best known work was the 1912 play The Bird of Paradise,[2] which caused a long-running court case over alleged plagiarism. A schoolteacher named Grace Fender was initially successful in persuading the court that Tully's play was based on her play In Hawaii, however the case was reversed on appeal.[3]
Tully retired to breed horses. He died on February 1, 1945, in New York City at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.[4]
Richard Walton Tully, playwright, instituted suit in the Superior Court here to-day for a divorce from Eleanor Gates Tully, the author. The charge is desertion.
Richard Walton Tully of 50 West Eighty-seventh Street, dramatist, author of the stage success "The Bird of Paradise," over which raged one of the bitterest plagiarism suits on record, died Wednesday night at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. His age was 67.
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