Member Directory,
1847 - 1922
Louis Evan Shipman
Dramatist
Centurion, 1912–1933
Proposed by
Brander Matthews and Herbert Adams
Brander Matthews and Herbert Adams
born
August 2, 1869
New York (Brooklyn), New York
New York (Brooklyn), New York
died
August 2, 1933
Boury-en-Vexin, France
Boury-en-Vexin, France
elected
March 2, 1912
Age forty-two
Age forty-two
buried
Mount Hope Cemetery,
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York
seconder of
Century Memorial
Like [Lee Wilson] Dodd and like most of our other successful contemporary playwrights, Louis Evan Shipman was not himself a product of the stage. He was a Harvard graduate, had begun by writing for the weekly magazines, and achieved his first and possibly greatest successes in dramatic composition when he was less than thirty. His productions appeared on the stage at reasonably frequent intervals during the three decades ending with 1929. He was one of those playwrights, not uncommon in the history of the theatre, who no sooner had brought to the footlights one comedy than the prolific pen and imagination were busy with another.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1934 Century Association Yearbook
