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RUPERT HUGHES
Rupert Hughes, author, was born in Lancaster, Missouri, on January 31, 1872; son of Felix Turner and Jean Amelia (Summerlin) Hughes.
He received the A.B. degree from Adelbert College (of Western Reserve University) in 1892 and the A.M. degree in 1893 (Litt.D. degree in 1936); A.M. degree from Yale University in 1889.
Mr. Hughes was assistant editor of Godey’s Magazine, Current Literature, and the Criterion; in London, England, from May 1901 to November 1902 and in new York until 1905, with Encyclopedia Britannica Company, as chief assistant editor of the 25-volume “Historians’ History of the World.”
Member of Phi Beta kappa and Delta Upsilon Fraternities; Coffee House, Lambs, Dutch Treat, and Authors (Los Angeles) Clubs.
From 1897 to 1908 he served as private to captain, National Guard of New York; Captain, 69th Regiment, United States National Guard, Mexican Border service, 1916; assistant to Adjutant General, New York, 1917; commissioned Captain of Infantry in January 1918 and Major in September 1918; in the Military Intelligence; received an honorary discharge in January of 1919; commissioned Major of Reserve Corps in April 1919; Lieutenant-Colonel in March 1928. Was active in formation of California State Guard in 1940; commissioned Colonel, commanding 2d Regiment, in July 1941 and resigned in June of 1943. Decorated with Order of Polonia Restituta (Polish) in 1923.
Mr. Hughes has been writing novels, verse, biographies, songs, radio and television sketches since 1898. He also composed A Riley Album of Songs, “Cain”; has written and directed many motion pictures; and acted as radio commentator. Among many of his numerous books are the following: “The Lakerim Athletic Club,” 1898; “American Composers,” 1900; “Gyges’ Ring” (verse), 1901 and reissued in 1950; “The Whirlwind,” “Love Affairs of Great Musicians,” “Zal,” “The Old Nest,” “What Will People Say?”, “Music Lovers’ Cyclopedia,” “Empty Pockets,” “The Thirteenth Commandment,” “We Can’t Have Everything,” “Unpardonable Sin,” “Long Ever Ago” (Irish stories), “Cup of Fury,” “Fairy Detective” (for children), “What’s the World Coming to?”; “Momma,” “Souls for Sale,” “Within These Walls,” “Destiny,” “We Live But Once,” “The Patent Leather Kid,” “Mermaid and Centaur,” “Ladies’ Man,” “No One Man,” “Static,” “The Uphill Road,” “The Man Without a Home,” “City of Angels,” “George Washington” (biography), “Attorney for the People, the Story of Thomas E. Dewey,” 1940; and many others. His plays include: Alexander the Great, All for a Girl, The Bridge (later called the Man Between), The Transformation (Later called Two Women); Excuse Me (played in the United States, Australia and London), Uncle Zeb, The Cat Bird, Tess of the Storm Country, his written vaudeville sketches including “Miss 318,” also sketches for radio and television.
On December 31, 1934, Mr. Hughes married (3d) Elizabeth Patterson Dial (died March, 1945).
Home: 204 North Rossmore Avenue, Los Angeles 4, California.
Transcribed 10-31-13 Marilyn R. Pankey.
Source: Eminent
Californians 1953, by Lee E. Johnson & C. W. Taylor. Pages 139-140, C. W. Taylor
Publ., Palo Alto, California, 1953.
© 2013 Marilyn R. Pankey.
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