Charlton Andrews (February 1, 1878 – August 13, 1939) was an American educator and writer whose works include the hit

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play ''

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''.

Early life

Andrews was born on February 1, 1878, in

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. After receiving a

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degree from

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and a

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from

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, he began a varied career working as a journalist, fiction writer, and teacher.

Writing

Andrews was most famous as co-author (with

Avery Hopwood James Avery Hopwood (May 28, 1882 – July 1, 1928) was an American playwright of the Jazz Age. He had four plays running simultaneously on Broadway in 1920, namely "The Gold Diggers," "The Bat" and "Spanish Love" and "Ladies' Night (In a ...

) of the play ''

'', which ran for 375 performances at the

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on Broadway. His other plays include ''Bluebeard's Eighth Wife'' (a translation of a French play, ''La huitième femme de Barbe-Bleue''), ''His Majesty the Fool'', and ''Fioretta''. ''Ladies' Night'' and ''Bluebeard's Eighth Wife'' were both adapted as movies. His other works include the novels ''The Lady of Gestures'', ''The Butterfly Murder'', ''The Affair of the Malacca Stick'', and ''The Affair of the Syrian Dagger''. He also wrote books about writing, including ''The Drama To-day'' and ''The Technique of Play Writing''. He served on the editorial staff of the ''

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'' in 1914, and he wrote articles for ''Theatre Magazine''.

Educational career

He held teaching positions at the

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, the State Normal School at Valley City Historic District,

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, and

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. His final teaching position was at

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in New York starting in 1928.

Later life and death

After receiving treatment for an unspecified illness at the Curie Institute in Paris, he died on August 13, 1939, at his summer home in

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Charlton 1878 births 1939 deaths American male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American male writers Writers from Indiana DePauw University alumni Washington State University faculty New York University faculty Harvard University alumni