New Repub. 13 ('17): 222; 21 ('19): 60.
See also _Book Review Digest_, 1919.
+Eugene Walter+--dramatist.
Born at Cleveland, Ohio, 1874. Educated in the public schools. Political
and general news reporter on various newspapers in Cleveland, Detroit,
Cincinnati, Seattle, and New York. Business manager of theatrical and
amusement enterprises, ranging from minstrels and circuses to symphony
orchestras and grand opera companies. Served in the Spanish War. His most
successful play, _The Easiest Way_ (1908), is printed by Dickinson,
_Chief Contemporary Dramatists_, 1915, and by Moses, _Representative
Plays by American Dramatists_, 1918-21, III.
For bibliography of unpublished plays, cf. _Cambridge_, III (IV), 772.