Died after his clothes caught fire while making a pot of coffee.
Wrote a column in verse for the "New York Call".
Was the Sunday editor for the "New York World" and later editor of the "New York Evening Graphic" (on which the fictional "New York Gazette" in Five Star Final (1931) is based)..
Author, playwright.
Began his career in 1915 as reporter for the "New York Times".
Remembered for his play "Five Star Final" and the hit movie (Five Star Final (1931)) that was based on it.