Channing Pollock (writer)

Channing Pollock, photo by Carl Van Vechten (April 27, 1934)

Channing Pollock (March 4, 1880 – August 17, 1946) was an American playwright, critic and writer of film scenarios, including The Evil Thereof (1916) and the memoir The Footlights, Fore and Aft (1911).

Pollock began his career in 1896 as the dramatic critic at The Washington Post later working at the Washington Times.[1]

Personal life

He was married to cat breeder and Manhattan Opera House press agent Anna Marble Pollock, daughter of actor and songwriter Edward Marble.[2][3][4]

Death

Pollock died at his summer home in Shoreham, Long Island in August 1946, a few months after his wife.[5]

Selected Broadway productions

References

  1. ↑ The Footlights, Fore and Aft by Channing Pollock, Gorham Press, New York, New York (1911), page
  2. ↑ Schwarz, Judith (1986). Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940 (Rev. ed.). Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers. p. 124. ISBN 0-934678-08-1.
  3. ↑ Who's who in Music and Drama, p. 212 (1914)
  4. ↑ (10 August 1906). Channing Pollock Married, The New York Times
  5. ↑ Channing Pollock Dies in 67th Year, Montreal Gazette (Associated Press story)
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