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Mantle, Robert Burns

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From: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
Date: 19960101
Author:PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND

Mantle, Robert Burns (1873–1948), American dramatic critic, who in 1898 became dramatic editor of the Denver Times . Later he worked as Sunday editor of the Chicago Tribune , and from 1922 until his retirement in 1943 he was dramatic critic of the New York Daily News . He edited till his death a series of play anthologies which began in 1920 with The Best Plays of 1919–1920; each volume contains extracts from 10 of the season's productions, together with an annotated index of every play produced in New York and at leading regional theatres during the year. It was ...

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