CHATTER TON, RUTH

(1893), born in New York City, educated at Mrs. Became an actre and appeared with stock companies until 1912 when she became the leading woman with Henry Miller in Rainbow. Later starred in many plays among which are: Daddy Long Legs, 1914; Come out of the Kitchen, 1916; Moonlight and Honeysuckle, 1919, and Mary Rose in 1920. Also co-starred with Henry Miller in Marriage of Convenience in 1918. ‘70), Eng. poet; b. Bristol; posthumous s. of a schoolmaster; ed. Colston’s School; apprenticed to a solicitor; was reckoned a dull boy at school, but afterwards developed’ an intense love for archaic lit. When the new bridge was opened at Bristol, 1768, ©. contributed to Felix Farley’s Journal an alleged description of the opening of the earlier bridge by a XV cent. monk, Thomas Row'ey. ‘Shortly afterwards he entered into correspondence with Horace Walpole, drawing his attention, amongst other matters, to a number of poems by Rowley, which he claimed to have discovered in a muniment chest of the Church of St. Mary Redcliffe. Specimens of these he submitted to Walpole, who at first wrote to him in a most courteous manner, but some of his learned friends, to whom they were submitted, pronounced them to be forgeries. Whereupon ensued a number of bitter letters on the part of C., while Walpole treated the y with silent contempt and neglect. The poet, with a few pounds in hi pocket, quitted Bristol for Londo April 1770, where he found a precariou employment as a writer of politic squibs and songs for Ranelagh Gardens On August 25, after starving for a wee he committed suicide by taking arseni in his garret at 4 Brook Street, Holborr and received a pauper’s burial.