Playwright
Centurion, 1913–1945
Born 7 April 1874 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 19 June 1945 in London, England
Proposed by Charles A. Platt and Elliot H. Goodwin
Elected 1 March 1913 at age thirty-eight
Archivist’s Note: Birth surname “Knoblauch”
Century Memorial
Edward Knoblock. [Born] 1874. Playwright.
The Secretary remembers Knoblock with special affection as the author of “Kismet,” the first play I ever saw and in which I first saw Otis Skinner. His other plays included “Tiger Tiger,” “Milestones” in collaboration with Arnold Bennett, and more recently “Grand Hotel,” a dramatization of Vicki Baum’s novel of that name. For the movies he wrote the scripts for “The Thief of Bagdad,” “The Three Musketeers” and “Rosita.” He lived in England for many years and, hence, leaves few memories at the Century; but it is known that he would take any amount of trouble to help a friend—and it seemed that all men were his friends.
Source: Henry Allen Moe Papers, Mss.B.M722. Reproduced by permission of American Philosophical Society Library & Museum, Philadelphia
Henry Allen Moe
Henry Allen Moe Papers, 1945 Memorials
