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Edward Knoblock

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