Maurice Reginald Hunter

From Bertrand Russell and Gamel Woolsey by Kenneth Hopkins

It was probably while she was at Woodstock, New York, that Gamel met Rex Hunter, for there is a photograph ofthem together in costume for A Midsummer Night's Dream. On 25 April 1923, they were married at City Hall, New York.
Maurice Reginald Hunter-Rex, as he was usually called, and he signed himself Rex Hunter in most of his writings-was a native of New Zealand who spent the greater part of his life as a journalist and miscel- laneous writer in the United States, principally in Chicago and New York. He wrote several short plays, published a novel and three collec- tions of poems, and left unpublished a number of other works, including the first volume of a proposed two-volume autobiography. As the first volume closes just before his marriage, and the second was apparently never written (or at least has not yet been found), we are left with only tantalizing remarks about his wife-Elsa, as he calls her. This is a pity, because her life in New York is very scantily documented.

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