FAMOUS ACTOR HURT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 30 September 1912, Page 8

FAMOUS ACTOR HURT.

LIFE RISKED TO PLEASE HIS FUTURE WIFE.

"Express" Correspondent. NEW YORK, August 16. Mr. Nat Goodwin, America's most famous comedian, who is celebrated as the most married man on the American ■ stage, was seriously injured yesterday while attempting to reach the shore in a rowing boat through heavy surf on the Californian coast to do a favour for nis- leading lady, Miss Marjorie , Morelaad '"■ - .... ... " l Goodw^ and Miss Moreland, to ; J*-PJ>»>; it is stated, the actor will short- j iy^bo married, wei'e making a trip in a I launch up .tho coast from Santa Monica to view tho site where Mr. Goodwia. intends erecting'-a summer hotel. .■ Miss'| ■iMqrelahd had a note for an olii Indian guide which «he wished to d<j delivered, and on passing, the Indian's hut shg . insisted that the. note must be sent to \ him. r - ! The "captain rJt tho launch declined ; tho. .Responsibility of sending a boat i ttiwpwh th^ heavy surf, "saying. tV*?. 1 H;6*ald: certainly capsize. Miss More-r-land.'a;disappointment was so keen that, Mr, .Goodwin gat into a rowing i>oat tow&d lr bv the launch, and with one oar as a paddle attempted to land. tThoiboat overturned in the breakers, ..^\nd Ttfr. Goodwin was cast up on the «Horo knd the boat fell heavily on him. . Mt vr s Cfoodwin was picked up helpless, "carriect on board the launch, and taken ."to tho Bafita'Monica Hospital. He is interirallv iniured, his lower limbs are ?paralysed, and.his spine has been hurt. - Mr. Nat Goodwin, who is one of Am--^rica'3 most famous comedy actors, i»s almost as famous for his marriages as his acting. He has been married four ftmesy each of his wives being a woman (rioted for her beauty, and he has been clivrvrwd three times. Tho most famous of his wives was Mto Maxine Elliott, whom he divorced for desertion, and the last was Miss Edna Goodrich, who divorced him last year. j