Harold Chapin

Harold Chapin (born February 15, 1886 in Brooklyn , † September 26, 1915 with Loos ) was an English actor and playwright.

Chapin came to Europe in 1888 with his mother, actress Alice Josephine Chapin . At her side he had his first stage appearance in 1893 at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon as Marcus in Shakespeare's Coriolanus . His first dramatic attempt, the Minstrel Show False Colors , which was intended for the Moore and Burgess Minstrels , also dates from this time . From 1895 to 1902 he attended North London Collegiate School , Norwich Grammar School and University College School .

From 1903 to 1905 he was a member of Vincent Crummles' company . During this time he also wrote poetry and wrote the libretto for a comic opera The Kings in Ireland . In the following years he appeared at the Theater Royal Drury Lane , the Adelphi Theater and the Lyceum Theater , and in 1908 he became a member of the management of the Duke of York's Theater around Charles Frohman . Here he had his first major success as an actor in JM Barrie's play What Every Woman Knows and in John Galsworthy's Strife .

In 1910 he appeared in the direction of Lewis Casson on the side of Sybil Thorndike in his play The Marriage of Columbine at the Royal Court Theater . In the same year he married the actress Calypso Valetta . In 1911 he took over the management of the Kingsway Theater (now Novelty Theater ) with Harley Granville Barker . 1912-13 his most important pieces came on the stage: Art and Opportunity ( Prince of Wales's Theater with Marie Tempest ), Elaine ( Gaiety Theater , conducted by Lewis Casson and Annie Horniman ) and The Dumb and the Blind .

After the outbreak of World War I, Chapin enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps in September 1914 , where he was promoted to the rank of Lance Corporal . Since March 1915 he was deployed on the Western Front, where he died on September 26th in the Battle of Loos .

Works

• Augustus in Search of a Father
• The Marriage of Columbine
• Muddle Annie
• The Autocrat of the Coffee Stall
• Innocent and Annabel
• The dumb and the blind
• The threshold
• Elaine
• Type & Opportunity
• Wonderful grandmama
• The New Morality
• It's the Poor that 'Elps the Poor
• Every Man for His Own
• Dropping the baby
• The Philosopher of Butterbiggins
• The Well Made Dress Coat

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• The World War I Document Archive - Harold Chapin
• Spartacus Educational - Haold Chapin
• Find a Grave - Lance Corporal Harold Chapin