Background
Langner, Lawrence was born on May 30, 1890 in Swansea, Wales. Son of Braham and Cecile Langner.
founder patent agent playwright
Langner, Lawrence was born on May 30, 1890 in Swansea, Wales. Son of Braham and Cecile Langner.
Educated grammar schools at Swansea, South Wales, and Margate, England.
Adair; married second, Armina Marshall, 1924. 1 son, Philip. Pupil of Wallace Cranston Fairweather, chartered patent agent, London. Passed examination of British Chartered Institute of Patent Agents, 1910.
Came to the United States, 1911, naturalized, 1917. Established firm of Lawrence Langner, 1913. Now member firm Langner, Parry, Card & Langner, foreign patent and trade mark specialists, New York, Chicago.
Member Stevens, Langner, Parry & Rollinson, chartered patent agents, London. Cons. Ordnance Department on munitions patents World War. Member Advisory Council American Committee for preparation of patent sections of Treaty of Versailles.
Executive secretary National Advisory Council to Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, 1939-1945. Organized (with Doctor Thomas Midgely and Conway P. Coe) National Inventors Council, Department of Commerce, for National defense inventions, 1940, secretary, 1940-1958. Organized Washington Square Players, New York City, 1914.
Founder of The Theatre Guild, 1918. Director since 1919, now also co-administrator. Made arrangements with Bernard Shaw to produce “St. Joan,” “Back to Methuselah”.
Made arrangements with Eugene O’Neil to produce “Strange Interlude,” “Morning Becomes Electra,” etc. Owner with wife, Armina Langner, Westport Country Playhouse, summer theatre, Connecticut. Founder 1st president American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy, Stratford, Connecticut, 1950.
Adapted many plays including School for Husbands (with Arthur Guiterman), Der Fledermaus (with Robert Simon), etc. Producer with others Theatre Guild on the Air, 1945-1952, and United States Steel Hour for television, 1953-1960. Author of one-act plays: “Another Way Out,” “Family Exit” (produced in New York by Washington Square Players).
“Matinata, “Pie” (Provincetown Players). Author: Pursuit of Happiness (with Armina Langner), 1934. On to Fortune (with Armina Langner), 1936.
Suzanna and the Elders (with Armina Langner), 1939. Henry Behave (play), 1927. Moses (play), 1924; Outline of Foreign Trade Mark Practice (with Herbert Langner), 1923.
These Modern Women, 1928. The Magic Curtain (autobiography). 1951; The Importance of Wearing Clothes, 1959.
The Play’s the Thing (playwriting textbook), 1960.
(Book by Langner, Lawrence, Robinson, Julian)
(Magic Curtain, The, by Langner, Lawrence)
Member Academy Television Arts and Sciences (treasurer, co-founder New York chapter), American Academy Dramatic Arts ( chairman of the board of trustees).
Married Estelle Roege, 1916 (divorced).; married second, Armina Marshall, 1924.