(1871?-1923)
The playwright was born and died in Cologne, Germany. He acted in Europe before coming to America where he turned to writing melodramas for popular-price theatres. A few were produced in New York; for example, The Fatal Wedding and For Her Children's Sake, both 1902; The Evil That Men Do and Wedded and Parted, both 1903. More important was his fodder for middle American theatre, notably Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1906).
The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater. James Fisher.