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While back in Europe in the early 1900s, Fabricius had given advice to the actor Frits
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during the 1930s, which convinced him to relocate to that country and hopefully find a second success there. He also met his second wife (Neville Colley) and remarried.
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His work in the news thereafter seems to be limited to theatre topics, as for example in 1915 he was listed as a contributor "for
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