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December 19, 1917 THE NEW YORK CLIPPER 71 BRILLIANT CAREER CUT SHORT ON THE LOOS BATTLEFIELD Harold Chapin, soldier and dramatist, whose comedy, "Art and Opportunity." served as the vehicle for the return of Miss Eleanor Painter to the local stage, at the Knickerbocker Theatre recently, was an American citizen who was killed at the battle of Loos on September 26, 1915. Mr. Chapin was born in' Brooklyn on February 15,1888. His career as an actor and playwright began in England, and within a few years he was recognized as one of the most brilliant young men as- sociated with the English stage. When Great Britain entered the present war Harold Chapin was among the first to en- list. Before his unit, the 6th London Field Ambulance, left for the front in March, 1915, he waa made lance corporal. He was bnt twenty-nine years old when he wag killed in action. Mr. Chapin was the author of a number of one-act plays which received marked attention in London. Amour his best known works are: ''Au- gustus in Search of a Father," which was first played at the Court Theatre, London, in 1910, and in which he himself appeared as Augustus. Then came his three-act play. "The Marriage of Columbine," which was produced at the same theatre shortly after. In 1911 he wrote and had produced the one-act plays, "Muddle Annie" and "The Autocrat of the Coffee Stall." Soon after, another one-act play, "The Dumb and the Blind," was brought out in Glasgow, "Art and Opportunity" was written next, and ran for several months at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. Then came his one-act plays, "It's the Poor that 'Elps the Poor" and "Every Man for His Own," which, with "The Dumb and the Blind," were played as a triple bill for several months at the Prince of Wales Theatre, in 1913 and 1914. PRAISE FOR BARRBE O. P. Heggie, the English actor, was in a reminiscent mood recently, and told this story of the first performance of Sir James M. Barrie's "The Twelve Pound Look." This rWlet was prcinoed at one of the London music halls which employed a varied bill of entertainers, among whom were a pair of low comedians. The two were standing in an entrance when "The Twelve Pound Look" was being acted. Applause and laughter greated nearly every line. "I Bay," remarked one of the comedians to his partner, "who wrote that sketch?" "I don't know 'is name," answered the other, "bnt 'e does our next sketch." • U. B. O. W. V. M. A. NOMINATED FOR NEXT-TO-CLOSING Jimmy Lyons "The Hebrew Statesman" Campaign Directors BEEHLER & JACOBS—MARK LEVY—ROSE & CURTIS LOEW N. V. A. Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year JOHN HYAMS AND LEILA McINTYRE Offering Their New Tabloid Musical Comedy 44 Maybloom" i