Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
Illustration — D'Arcy in the 1910s Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (March 5, 1843 – November 11, 1925) was a French-born poet and writer and a pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry. He is known for his 1887 poem, "The Face upon the Barroom Floor", a sorrowful tale of a painter who takes to drink after his lover deserts him for the fair-haired lad in one of his portraits. After study at England's Ipswich University, d'Arcy was a call boy and juvenile actor at the Theatre Royal in Bristol.
Hugh Antoine d'Arcy
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- 1843 · United States.
- Died
- 1925
- Occupation
- poet
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Illustration — D'Arcy in the 1910s Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (March 5, 1843 – November 11, 1925) was a French-born poet and writer and a pioneer executive in the American motion picture industry. He is known for his 1887 poem, "The Face upon the Barroom Floor", a sorrowful tale of a painter who takes to drink after his lover deserts him for the fair-haired lad in one of his portraits. After study at England's Ipswich University, d'Arcy was a call boy and juvenile actor at the Theatre Royal in Bristol.
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Hugh Antoine d'Arcy (1843–1925) was a poet.
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