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Occupation
  
Playwright

Spouse
  
Lisle Colby (m. ?–1934)

Role
  
Playwright


Name
  
Augustus Thomas

Years active
  
1913–1934

Plays
  
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Born
  
January 8, 1857
St. Louis, Missouri, US

Other names
  
Augustus ThomasAugust Thomas'Gus' Thomas

Died
  
August 12, 1934, Nyack, New York, United States

Movies
  
Arizona, The Witching Hour, The Nightingale, The Family Secret, The Jungle

Books
  
In Mizzoura, Alabama - a Drama in Four Acts, The Print of My Remembrance

Similar People
  
Clyde Fitch, William A Seiter, Booth Tarkington, Frances Hodgson Burnett, William Desmond Taylor

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Augustus Thomas (January 8, 1857 – August 12, 1934) was an American playwright.

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Biography

Born in St. Louis, Missouri and son of a doctor, Thomas worked a number of jobs including as a page in the 41st Congress, studying law, and gaining some practical railway work experience before he turned to journalism and became editor of the Kansas City Mirror in 1889. Thomas had been writing since his teens when he wrote plays and even organized a small theatrical touring company.

Thomas was hired to work as an assistant at Pope's Theatre in St. Louis. During this time, he wrote a one-act play called Editha's Burglar, based on a short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett called The Burglar. After touring in the play, he expanded the show to four acts, renamed it The Burglar, and was able to get Maurice Barrymore to play the title role. Subsequently, he was hired to succeed Dion Boucicault adapting foreign plays for the Madison Square Theatre.

His first successful play, Alabama, was produced by Kirke La Shelle in 1891 and its financial reward allowed Thomas to write full-time. Alabama is the story of an un-reconstructed Confederate. Notably, Thomas was one of the first playwrights to make use of American material. Other plays along the same lines include Arizona (1900), In Mizzoura (1893), Colorado (1900) and Rio Grande (1916). Perhaps his most successful play was The Copperhead (1918) which made Lionel Barrymore a star.

Thomas reached a high artistic level in Arizona and The Witching Hour. A novelization of the latter appeared in 1908. He was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, was awarded the National Institute's gold medal in 1913, and in 1914 received an honorary A. M. degree from Williams College. According to the Oxford Companion to the Theatre, his plays are "on the whole, not profound, and provided entertainment of a kind acceptable to his audiences." Thomas was elected to The Lambs theatrical club in 1889 and served as its president from 1907 to 1910.

He died in 1934 and was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.

Select works

  • Editha’s Burglar, 1884
  • The Burglar, 1889
  • A Man of the World, 1889
  • Reckless Temple, 1890
  • A Woman of the World, 1890
  • Alabama, 1891
  • Colonel Carter of Cartersville, 1892
  • In Mizzoura, 1893
  • New Blood, 1894
  • Arizona, 1900
  • Oliver Goldsmith, 1900
  • Colorado, 1900
  • Soldiers of Fortune, 1902
  • The Earl of Pawtucket, 1903
  • The Other Girl, 1903
  • Mrs. Leffingwell’s Boots, 1905
  • The Witching Hour, 1907
  • The Harvest Moon, 1909
  • The Member from Ozark, 1910
  • As a Man Thinks, 1911
  • The Copperhead, 1918
  • Nemesis, 1921
  • The Print of My Remembrance (autobiography), 1922
  • Still Waters, 1926
  • Select filmography

  • Arizona (1913)
  • The Jungle (1914)
  • Paid in Full (1914)
  • The Nightingale (1914)
  • Arizona (1918)
  • The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921)
  • Thirty Days (1922)
  • The Family Secret (1924)
  • Arizona (1931)
  • References

    Augustus Thomas Wikipedia


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