Henry Kistemaeckers (playwright) explained

Henry Kistemaeckers
Birthname:Henry Hubert Alexandre Kistemaeckers
Birth Date:October 13, 1872
Birth Place:Floreffe, Belgium
Death Place:Paris, France
Occupation:Playwright and Novelist
Spouse:Julie Carvés
Citizenship:Naturalized French
Signature:Henry Kistemaeckers fils signature.png

Henry Hubert Alexandre Kistemaeckers (October 13, 1872 – January 21, 1938) was a prolific Belgian-born French author and playwright.

Early life and career

Henry Hubert Alexandre Kistemaeckers was born in Floreffe,[1] a small town some forty-five miles southeast of Brussels. He was the son of Henry Kistemaeckers (1851–1934), a controversial Belgian publisher often at odds with the censorship laws of the day.[2] As a young man, Kistemaeckers attended the Royal Athenaeum at Ostend, the University of Brussels and had published his first works while still in his teens.[3] [4]

He began as a novelist but soon turned to playwriting for his livelihood. A vast number of works would flow from his hand over the decades of his life, with Instinct, Marchand de Bonheur, Le Roi de Palaces, La Passante and Un Jour de Amour among his more successful productions. His drama Le Flambée was adapted for the English stage by Peter Le Marchant and produced in London as The Turning Point and in New York as The Spy.[5] The Broadway play Where the Poppies Grow, produced at the Theatre Republic in 1918, was adapted from Kistemaeckers’ Un Soir, au Front by Roi Cooper Megrue. His most successful Broadway production, Woman of Bronze, was written with Eugene Delard 1907 as La Rivale and adapted for the American stage by Paul Kester. The play opened at the Frazee Theatre on September 7, 1920 and had a run of 252 performances. In the summer of 1927 Woman of Bronze returned to the Lyric Theatre for a 30 performance revival.[6] [7]

Private life

Kistemaeckers became a French citizen in 1900 after achieving success in Paris. He was married to Julie Carvés, the daughter of ship’s captain, and among his hobbies were fencing and automobiles. Kistemaeckers was a recipient of the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, served as president of the French Society of Authors and was a member of the Society of Playwrights, Society of Men of Letters and the popular committee of the Society of Preservation against Tuberculosis.

Death

Kistemaeckers died in Paris on January 21, 1938, at the age of 65.

Selected works

Plays

Filmography

Screenwriter

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=m5osAQAAMAAJ Who's Who in the Theatre; Volume 3; 1916; pg. 745
  2. Hawthorne, Melanie – Rachilde and French Women's Authorship: from Decadence to Modernism – 2001 – pp. 92–94
  3. Henry Kistemaeckers. The New York Times; January 22, 1938; pg. 18
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=qO08AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA624 The International Who’s Who; 1910; pg. 624
  5. https://books.google.com/books?id=eU0xAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA213 Colby, Frank Moore-Churchill, Allen Leon-The New International Year Book; 1914; pg. 213
  6. http://www.ibdb.com/person.php?id=6243 Henry Kistemaeckers – Internet Broadway Database
  7. http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=10335 Woman of Bronze – Internet Broadway Database
  8. https://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_Kistemaeckers_L_Apprentissage_de_l.html?id=6VdwQwAACAAJ L'Apprentissage de Lord Will, Moeurs Automobiles, – Google Books
  9. https://books.google.com/books?id=DaZeQwAACAAJ&q=Henry+Kistemaeckers The Theatre at the Exposition – Google Books
  10. https://books.google.com/books?id=GzeiySJZXF4C&dq=Eug%C3%A8ne+Delard+%22Woman+of+Bronze%22+%22La+Rivale%22&pg=PA514 Broadway Plays and Musicals
  11. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7498351 L'occident : pièce en trois actes WorldCat
  12. https://books.google.com/books/about/Un_soir_au_front.html?id=GDs0AAAAMAAJ Un Soir, au Front, – Google Books
  13. https://books.google.com/books/about/La_passante.html?id=UOq8QAAACAAJ La Passante – Google Books
  14. https://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_Kistemaeckers_L_Amour_pi%C3%A8ce_en_qu.html?id=ECuEQwAACAAJ L'Amour, – Google Books
  15. https://books.google.com/books?id=WUlhAAAAIAAJ&dq=Henry+Kistemaeckers&pg=PA252 Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [C] Group 3.Dramatic Composition and Motion Pictures by Library of Congress. Copyright Office; 1933; pg. 252 – Google Books

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Henry Kistemaeckers (playwright)".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.