Scott Marble (1847 – April 5, 1919) was an American playwright who wrote the 1896 stage melodrama The Great Train Robbery which in 1903 was made into a film of the same name that later would be regarded as a classic movie Western. For the female impersonator George W. Munroe he wrote the play My Aunt Bridget (1886);[1] a work which had a lengthy national tour in vaudeville in the late nineteenth century.[2] His other plays include Tennessee's Pardner (1894), The Sidewalks of New York (1895), The Cotton Spinner (1896), The Heart of the Klondike (1897), and Have You Seen Smith? (1898), On Land and Sea (1898), and Daughters of the Poor (1899). The composer Richard Stahl wrote the book for the romantic opera Said Pascha which originally was produced at the Tivoli Opera House in San Francisco in 1888.
Marble was born in Pennsylvania in 1847.[3][4][5] He moved to the Chicago area circa 1878 and worked there as an actor in the 1880s. He and his wife, actress Grace Marble, had four children.[6] He died in New York City, on April 5, 1919.
References
edit- ^ "Amusements". The Kansas City Times. August 1, 1886. p. 5.
- ^ "George W. Munroe, Actor, Dies'At 70; Once Star of 'My Aunt Bridget' Was Noted for His Characterizations of Irish Women". The New York Times. January 30, 1932. p. 17.
- ^ U.S. Census, June 1, 1880, State of Illinois, County of Cook, enumeration district 3, p. 42-C, line 25.
- ^ Ancestry.com. Chicago Voter Registration, 1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: The Generations Network, Inc., 2001.
- ^ U.S. Census, June 1, 1900, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 111, p. 1-B, family 10.
- ^ U.S. Census, March 15, 1910, State of New York, County of New York, enumeration district 1367, p. 8-B, family 180.
Further reading
editThe Oxford Companion to American Theatre. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
External links
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