Los Angeles, July 21.
Mr, Oliver Morosco, at one time an outstanding theatrical producer in New York City and a millionaire, was in a hospital here to-day with skull injuries which may cost him his "fe. Police reported that Me. Moroseo, who has been in straitened circumstances in recent years, wa: injured in a fall down the stairway of a cheap rooming-house in which he "was living. His skull wa: fractured, and he is given stight hope of recovery.
Mr. Morosco, now 60 years old, began his theatrical career as an acrobat in a troupe managed by his father, later becoming an assistant manager and publicity agent in California, For many years he was manager of the Majestic Theatre here and later operated the Morosco 'Theatres, named for his father, in New York and Los Angeles. In addition to his notable productions, including "Bird of Paradise,' "Peg O My Heart," "The Unchastened Woman," and others, he was the ce-author of "The Judge and the Jury," "The Society Plot,""So Long, Letty." and "Merely Mary Brown, United Press.
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