MICHAEL (BLANCHE OELRICHS) STRANGE - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 10/28/1929 CO-SIGNED BY: HENRY ROOT STERN - HFSID 18792
Sale Price $165.00
Reg. $200.00
MICHAEL STRANGE
Her signed, handwritten letter initialed twice by the recipient, her
lawyer.
Autograph Letter signed: "Michael Strange", 1p, 5¾x8¾.
Initialed twice by her lawyer, Henry Root Stern. No place, 1929
October 28. In full: "Thanks --- such is life --- sometimes - and
you have done everything possible. All the best to you". Poet, playwright
and actress Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs (1890-1950) used the pen and stage
name Michael STRANGE. A real estate heiress and debutante active in the
women's suffrage movement, she published her first book, Miscellaneous
Poems, in 1916. The second of her three husbands was stage and silent film
star John Barrymore. Actress Diana Barrymore was their daughter. Strange's first
Broadway play, Claire de Lune (1921), starred John and Ethel Barrymore.
In 1936, Strange commenced a popular New York City radio program of poetry and
music, eventually accompanied by a full orchestra. Henry Root STERN, of
the New York law firm Rushmore, Bisbee and Stern, was a 3-time delegate to the
Republican National Convention and a Presidential Elector in 1952. Binder holes
at top. Lightly creased and soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.
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