| 词条 | Burns Mantle |
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| name = Burns Mantle | image = Burns Mantle.jpg | alt = | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = Robert Burns Mantle | birth_date = {{birth date|1873|12|23}} | birth_place = Watertown, New York, United States | death_date = {{death date and age|1948|02|09|1873|12|23}} | death_place = Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States | resting_place = | occupation = Newspaper theatre critic | language = English | ethnicity = | alma_mater = | period = | genre = Theatre criticism | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | spouse = | partner = | children = | relatives = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = }}Robert Burns Mantle (December 23, 1873{{spaced ndash}}February 9, 1948) was an American theatre critic. He founded the Best Plays annual publication in 1920.[1][1] BiographyMantle was born in Watertown, New York, on December 23, 1873, to Robert Burns Mantle and Susan Lawrence. As a child he moved to Denver, Colorado. By 1892, he was working as a linotype machine operator in California and then became a reporter. By the late 1890s, Mantle was working as a drama critic for the Denver Times. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and then New York City, New York, in 1911.[1] He was at the New York Evening Mail until 1922, and then the Daily News until his retirement in 1943. Mantle was succeeded as the drama critic at the Daily News by his assistant John Arthur Chapman.[2][3] He died, aged 74, of stomach cancer on February 9, 1948.[4][5] His wife was the former Lydia (Lillie) Sears; her sister Clara Sears Taylor was a journalist and government official who assisted Mantle with compiling his Best Plays publications.[6] References1. ^Chansky, Dorothy (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qi05lnLbcMMC&pg=PA51&dq=#v=onepage&q&f=false "Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public"], in Theatre History Studies (via Google Books). Vol. 31. 2. ^Staff (August 16, 1943). [https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BX8tAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BpkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5287,2280494&dq= Burns Mantle Quits as Drama Reviewer"]. Associated Press (via The Gazette via Google News). Retrieved February 16, 2012. 3. ^Abstract (August 15, 1943). [https://www.nytimes.com/1943/08/15/archives/burns-mantle-retires-dean-of-new-york-drama-critics-on-staff-of-the.html "Burns Mantle Retires"]. The New York Times. {{subscription required|date=February 2012}} for full article. 4. ^1 2 {{cite news |author=Associated Press |coauthors= |title=Burns Mantle Is Dead, Former Drama Critic |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0zIrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BJkFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4200,1561419&dq |quote=Burns Mantle, 74, veteran drama critic noted for his annual compilations of the 'Best Plays' of the year, died today of cancer of the stomach. A drama critic in New York since 1911 Mantle served ... |newspaper=The Gazette|date=February 10, 1948 |accessdate=2012-12-17 }} 5. ^{{cite news |author= |coauthors= |title=Burns Mantle, 74, Drama Critic, Dies – Dear of Reviewers Here, Noted as Anthologist of Best Plays, Served The News 21 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/02/10/archives/burns-mantle-74-drima-critic-dies-dearof-revewers-here-noted-as.html |quote= |newspaper=New York Times |date=February 10, 1948 |accessdate=2012-12-17 }} 6. ^Brooks Atkinson, "Keeper of the Drama's Books" New York Times (September 11, 1938): 185. External links
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