Alan Dale (May 14, 1861 - May 21, 1928)
[Silent Film Necrology, p.116 2nd edit. c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana ] was an influential British theatre critic, playwright and book author of the late Victorian and early 20th Century eras. He was born Alfred J. Cohen in Birmingham England. He arrived in New York in 1887 and became a drama critic for several New York papers i.e., ''
New York Evening World
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'', ''
New York Journal
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal''
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'' and the ''
New York American
:''Includes coverage of New York Journal-American and its predecessors New York Journal, The Journal, New York American and New York Evening Journal''
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''. His reviews of plays were often negative but helped sell a lot of
William Randolph Hearst
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's newspapers. The theatre world despised Dale for his acid reviews.
[The Oxford Companion To American Theatre, p.180 2nd edition c.1992 by Gerald Bordman ]
His spouse was Carrie L. Frost and they had at least one child Margaret (or Marjorie).
Dale died aboard train while traveling from Plymouth to Birmingham. He had undergone several operations previously after health problems.
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See also
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William Ernest Henley
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George Bernard Shaw
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Alexander Woolcott
Alexander Humphreys Woollcott (January 19, 1887 – January 23, 1943) was an American drama critic and commentator for ''The New Yorker'' magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio ...
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Heywood Broun
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Dorothy Parker
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From a conflicted and unhap ...
Selected bibliography
Novels
*''Jonathan's Home'' (1885)
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A Marriage Below Zero
''A Marriage Below Zero'' is a novel by Alan Dale. Published in 1889, it has been described as the first English-language novel portraying a romantic relationship between two men. It is a melodrama told from the point of view of a young woman who ...
'' (1889)
*''An Eerie He and She'' (1889)
*''An Old Maid Kindled'' (1890)
*''Miss Innocence'' (1890)
*''Conscience on Ice'' (1892)
*''My Footlight Husband'' (1893)
*''A Moral Busybody'' (1894)
Other works
*''Familiar Chats with Queens of the Stage'' (1880)
References
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1861 births
1928 deaths
Writers from Birmingham, West Midlands
English critics
19th-century British dramatists and playwrights
20th-century English dramatists and playwrights
English male dramatists and playwrights
19th-century English male writers
20th-century English male writers
English male non-fiction writers