Suicide of L. Donovan Bisbee, Hoax and Snake-in-the -Grass, Marks End of Lurid Career--Creators To Return To Books

After vainly striving to snatch the lime-light away from Prince Romanoff, L. Donovan Bisbee ocC., well-known undergraduate hoax and prolific correspondent, committed suicide, in his study in Leverett House yesterday morning. It is generally rumored that the mid-year exams were too much for his neurotic perpetrators. With a sigh of regret, the more eligible society matrons in Boston and vicinity will remove Bisbee's name from their door lists, for though he never appeared, he was much in demand.

Among the short and violent episodes which supplied the spice to Bisbee's colorful career, a few stand out prominently. Early this fall, Bisbee was seized by an over-powering passion to write lyrics. Answering an add in Motion Picture Magazine, he wrote, "I have been thinking about composing a peppy, collegiate song with a racy, ha-cha-cha chorus." Almost immediately he received a reply from Henry Cohen, chief of staff, to the effect "whether you write for play of pay, you are to be encouraged because it shows a lofty thought.

In a weaker moment Bisbee became involved in an unfortunate affair with a girl named Rose. Stricken with a guilty conscience, he wrote to the "Friend in Need" column of Laura Brown in street and Smith's "Love Story Magazine," protesting the great fuss made by Rose. He received an uncompromising reply to the effect that "If you've any honor, and a sense of fairness, you certainly ought to marry that poor child Rose. You expect to dance and not pay the piper." Bisbee was disgusted he never even mentioned dancing.

With righteous indignation, Bisbee recently called to the attention of the Watch and Ward Society the "Vicious libels" of the current number of the Lampoon, although perversely enough he had contributed to the publication.

In his last, inglorious attempt to gain the transient rays of public favor of a certain type, he threw aside his habit of bagging cats for a neighboring Medical School, and took up politics. When however, both the city editor of the Boston Post, and the managing editor of the Boston Globe refused to exonerate him publicly from leading the movement to "Buy American" he was compelled by the pressure of academic engagements o give up his career, and forfeit his life for the benefit of this creators.