Tully, Richard Walton

(1877-1945)

   Born in Nevada City, California, he graduated from the University of California. His first important play, the romantic melodrama The Bird of Paradise (1912), was produced by Oliver Morosco. Tully was sued for plagiarism, but won on appeal and went on to write The Rose of the Rancho (1906), Omar the Tentmaker (1914), and The Flame (1916). He directed some of his own plays, as well as works by others, including John Hunter Booth's The Masquerader (1917) and Keep Her Smiling (1918), and Ernest Hutchinson's The Right to Strike (1921).