The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-22
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Hunt Hts Assailant
 Police hunted his assaiiant, but In travelling the unsteady l0ute that Heaiy took Sunday night and early Monday morning after he had lock- ed fondiy at his sleeping infant In the hospital maternity ward, they could discover only that Aealy had cele. hrated not wisely, but too well. There were reports that Healy had engaged In c terrific fight at the Trocadero. rendezvous of the movie stars, where the walls are deep blue tho atmosphere is luxurious, and c scotch and soda cost c dollar. II. W. Hoffman. tho Suavo manager of this resort. said Healy had arriVOl there about i:i6 c. m. but had been drinking 50 heavily that attendants put him into c taxicab instead of selling him another whisky. "Healy was c good friend of ours and there positively was no rough Stuff," Hoff" man said,
 Fried to Tell Story
 Man Mountain Dean. tho behe. moth wrestler, who accompanied Heaiy to c Holiywood's doctors of. flee for treatment reported that he had been standing in front of the Plaza Hotel at 2:30 c. m. when c taxicab rolled up and the comedian staRGerNd out. He was bleeding from c cut over one eye. Dean said Healy blurted out an iiieoherent story that t.n had tAAsa atElaais at ttA H'HA0A daHA Cafe. but was In such C condition he did not know who had hit him, Doc Bishop. C movie bit player, who was with Dean. said no paid the taxi bill, which amounted to $50. The size of the bill indicated Healy had done c good deal of travelling after leaving the cafe, which is about c T6 cent ride from the Plaza.
 Other reports said Healys fight had occurred ct the Beveriy.Wil- shire Hotel, home of many 6 movie star, but clerks denied that he had been ii any trouble there. His Next Stop
 Heaiy's next stop apparently was tho Brown Derby restaurant Oil Vine street. where C waitress re- membered having seen him. There were few customers in the Derby's Bamboo Room bar. Heaiy left shortly. to go directly across the street t0 tho "ft" cafe. where c Bil- yer statue Of Miss Bow. iii C dress falling from the shoulders, dec0rateS the bar.
 There somebody made C phone call and his manager. Jack Marcus, rushed Co him end noticed tic cut forehead. Marcus aroused Dr. Sidney Weinberg ii his nearby Plaza Hotel apartment pr. Weinberg treated Heaiy's iacerations. lie said "Iuaf Mountain" Dean. the whiskered wrestler. also accompanied HeAiy. The doctor quoted Healy as saying Of his wound:
 T don't know how I got it" Vert te His Home
 Heaiy went to his Westwoed VII. ago home, where f6 begaf to suffer convuisions. Dr. Lamont, the family physician who had delivered hR child three days earlier, iater was called and remained with him UT. tii no died.
 Originator Of tiie "stooges" which most ether comedians adopted to bolster their hufncf, Heaiy at q was C top-fiight performer otl the radi0, in vaudeville. and in the pictures. The youthful Mrs. Heaiy, hiS second wife, Is former Betty Hickman, Wh0 was c University Of California C0-ed friin Pasadena when Heaiy met aiid won her.
 Heaiy spent IS years in vaudeville and brought many innovations to the stage, chief ef which was the "stooge." fife was playing il New York on one occasion, and decided t0 invite three boyhood friends to appear with him in an ifapromptu aet, They were bFothefA Curly Moe ahd
 The act "Went over" SC wei t1at Heaiy kept tiie brothers, They be- came known as his "st00gGs," who had take such punishment aS having eyes and Heaiy's fists bounced of their heads. Occasionally, enc was seated in the audience to heckIe the act 0fl the stage.
 T0ek Up Movies in 1881
 HeaIy turned to motion pictures in 1881. The "stOOges" appeared with him ifi several films, but Fe- centiy he played alone Of with atI~ ether comedian. His first picture was Soup to Nuts" Since then he appeared in more than 6 score Of comedies aild musical comedies, the Iast Of which was Hollywood Hotel" yEeaiy wag born i9 Houston, Tex, and Spent his boyho0d tfl Columbus and Canton, Q. He studded lew at FOFdhafn University, New York city, but turned to vaudeville for career, His first wife was Betty BFatttI, | his partner Osl of the stage fOF many years. She sued hlfn for divorce in i922, h May, 104e, De eloped to Yuma, AFiz. with Betty Hickman, now 22, w1SO had just finished college. 4 short time later they separated, aild Gile obtained an inter1ocutoFy divorce degree, Before t became final H1ey patched up their differences.