1950's The Arts | Deaths

Irving Addison Bachelier, 90, novelist, 24 February 1950.

Fred E. Ahlert, 61, popular-song writer (" I'll Get By," "Walkin My Baby Back Home"), president (1948-1952) of American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 20 October 1953.

Zoë Akins, 72, playwright, poet, novelist, and 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner for her dramatization of The Old Maid, 29 October 1958.

Fred Allen (John Florence Sullivan), 61, comedian, 17 March 1956.

Frederick Lewis Allen, 63, author (Only Yesterday, Since Yesterday), editor in chief of Harpers Magazine (1941-1953), 13 February 1954.

Paul Hastings Allen, 68, composer of operas and symphonies, winner of the 1910 Paderewski Prize, 28 September 1952.

Maxwell Anderson, 70, playwright (Winterset, High Tor, Both Your Houses) who popularized the use of blank verse in modern drama, 28...