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Hugh Antoine d'Arcy is most famous for his 1887 poem "'' The Face On 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. Keystone Studios would use the poem as the basis for a 1914 Film of the same name starring Charlie Chaplin . It would be put to song by Country Music star Hank Snow on his 1968 "''Tales Of The Yukon''" Album . D'Arcy married the daughter of Philadelphia film mogul Siegmund Lubin and went to work as the publicity manager for his Lubin Studios . The studio used a story he had written for a 1912 film titled ''"Madeline's Christmas''." Hugh Antoine d'Arcy passed away in 1925 in New York City . |
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