The Daily Alaska empire., 1942-05-30
BARRYMORE IS DEAD IN
 HOLLYWOOD
John, Youngest of Royal Family" Sueeumbs
 After Illness

HOLLYWOOD, Calf, May 30- John Barrymore, 60, veteran stage screen and radio star, died last night. His only brother, Lionel, also veteran actor, was at his bedside when the end came after several 1ours of unconsciousness.
 Barrymore had visited in Alaska on his yacht the Infanta, several times during the 1930's.
 The eccentric actor, youngest brother of Lionel and Ethel, known as The Royal Family of Broad way" was judged the leader of the trio by many persons, from an artistic standpoint.
 On the legitimate stage and both the silent and talking screen. he scored in roles ranging from Shake speare to modern light comedy Early in his youth. like Lionel and Ethel, he tried to avoid his heri- tage of dramatic ability and started cut as newspaper cartoonist and reporter.
 Heritage of Drama
 Their real name was Blyth, for their father. Maurice Barrymore had adopted that name. when he became an actor. Their mother was Gcorgie Drew, daughter of John Drew. an Irish actor of pre-civil Wal days, and Louisa Lane, who came to the United States in l847 to support Junius Brutus Booth Louisa Lane was the daughter of Thomas Frederick Lane, an Eng fish actor, and she lived to act with her grandchildren.
 After a year or two of newspaper work. John decided at 2l that no was missing too many meals and made his stage debut October 31, 1903, in Chicago. After two New York seasons, he made his debut in London with William Collier, tour ing later to Australia.
 Famous as Hamlet
 John appeared in New York 101 times as the melancholy Dane, breaking record established by Booth. President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge attended the Hamlet first night in Washington and later en- tertained him in the White House
 After that, Barrymore turned his pack on the legitimate stage and took up the films as a vocation Hollywood liked to cast the Barry mores together and cast Ethel Lionel and John together in "Ras- putin
 His marital affairs often put him in the news columns. His first mar riage, October 10, 1910, was to Kath- erine Cori Harris and ended ir annulment. On August IS, 1920. he married Mrs. Leonard Thomas, who wrote under the name Michael Strange" They had a daughte, Dianna Barrymore.
 In 1929, he and Michael Strange were divorced and he married Do- lores Costello, a film star in hei own right. A daughter, Ethel Do- lores Barrymore, was born to then in 1930 and a son, John Blytt Barrymore, in 1882.
 In the spring of 1885, Dolore: Costello sued for divorce while Johr was on yachting trip in tho West InIdies, his party including Elaine Barrie and her mother, Bar rymore explaining that he wa! coaching Miss Barrie for radiC work. Barrymore did not contes his wife's suit and it was granted in October, 1855.
 Real Life Drama His pursuit of Elaine Barrie made headlines in the newspapers aftel that. A month before he was di vorced, it was reportd that he anc Elaine Barrie had quarreled in New York. He left secretly for the Pa. cific Coast and she travelled D! train, plane and taxi-cab to heae him off, appealing by radio saying that others were trying to keel us apart"
 After several on and off engage ments, he and Miss Barrie Wer, married in 1886. She was B year his junior. Several times sine then, they have been separated.