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- Lucille Young was born in Lansing, Ingham, Michigan, a year after her brother. Her parents' marriage was a difficult and short-lived one. Her mother married a second time and Lucille gained a 1/2 sister, Ethel Terry, b 1888 (also an actor and "classical fancy dancer", as described in her entry in the Motion Pictures Studio Directories, (1919))
In 1905, Lucille and her 1/2 sister, Ethel Terry, hit the vaudeville circuit in Detroit. They're found working as shop girls by day and performing at night; one production noted in the Detroit Free Press was the "Isles of Spice". She's mentioned as a player in the vaudeville giant, Vaughan Glaser Company (Cleveland), in 1907.
Sometime around 1909 she made her way to New York, her film biography details her early film work there with The Thanhouser Company.
By 1914, she's found with living with her mother, Katherine B Terry and 1/2 sister, Ethel, also a "photo player" in in Los Angeles. Her film bio reflects a tremendous amount of work between 1915-17, some with major names of the times, Lillian Gish and DW Griffith, among others.
In 1918, she married an attorney, Lieutenant Hale Day in San Diego. A few months after the marriage, he went to the war front in Europe, she went back to making movies. The marriage produced no children and like her mothers', was relatively short-lived.
Around the mid-1920's her film career was winding down, Lucille, her mother and 1/2 sister lived together in Los Angeles until her untimely death on 1 Aug 1934. According to her death notice in the Los Angeles Times, her funeral service was held on 3 Aug 1934 at the Hollywood Cemetery Chapel. Per her death record, her remains were cremated. - Coming from an aristocratic Prussian family, Paul von Hindenburg joined the Prussian army as a young man, retiring as a general in 1913 at age 66. Recalled to duty during World War I, he was placed in command of the German forces at the battle of Tannenberg in 1914 against the Russians which, due to a combination of his skillful tactics and staggeringly incompetent leadership on the part of the Russian generals, resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Russian army, which lost an estimated 350,000 men. In 1916 he was made supreme commander of all German forces. He retired from the army again in 1919, but in 1925 returned to public life as a candidate for President of Germany, and won the election. He ran for re-election in 1932, not so much because he wanted to but because he was considered the only candidate who could beat Adolf Hitler, which he proceeded to do. Hindenburg had little use for Hitler and the Nazi party and did what he could to thwart their grab for power, but it was too little too late--in 1933, due to the Nazi party's gains in local and national elections and their majority of seats in the German parliament, Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor, and later he signed the Enabling Act of 1933, which granted sweeping powers to the government formed by Hitler. Frustrated, frail and in poor health, Hindenburg died the next year.