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Langdon Elwyn Mitchell was born on February 17, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell and Mary Middleton Elwyn. His grandfather was John Kearsley Mitchell, a well-known physician.
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Langdon Elwyn Mitchell was born on February 17, 1862, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Dr. Silas Weir Mitchell and Mary Middleton Elwyn. His grandfather was John Kearsley Mitchell, a well-known physician.
Langdon Mitchell was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, North Hampshire, and, after three years' study abroad, studied law at Harvard and Columbia universities and was admitted to the New York bar in 1886.
Although Mitchell had been among the leaders of his class at Harvard, he decided to devote himself to writing. He published his first poetry and drama, beginning in 1883, under the pen-name of John Philip Varley. Sylvian (1885) was a tragedy, partly in verse. His other early poetical work appeared under the title of Poems (1894). A volume of two novelettes, Love in the Backwoods, was published in 1897. These reflected his experiences on what was, in West Virginia at that date, still a frontier. He was a lifelong devotee of the wilds, both in the United States and abroad. His first successful play on the stage was Becky Sharp, a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair, produced first at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York, September 12, 1899, by Mrs. Fiske. It ran for two years, was revived by Mrs. Fiske ten years later, and again in 1930. So successful indeed was it that an American imitation was stopped by an injunction, and two versions were given in England during the season of 1901. Mitchell's dramatization of his father's novel, The Adventures of François, first played by Henry E. Dixey in 1900 at the Park Theatre, Philadelphia, was not successful, but his finest play, The New York Idea, was first produced by Mrs. Fiske at the Lyric Theatre in New York, November 19, 1906, with a remarkable cast. It is a satire on divorce and has taken its place as the best social comedy produced during the early twentieth century. Under the name of Jonathans Tochter, The New York Idea was translated into German and played at the Kammerspiel Theatre, Berlin, under the direction of Max Reinhardt, October 7, 1916. It was also translated into Danish, Swedish, and Hungarian. On October 11, 1916, Mitchell's dramatization of Thackeray's Pendennis was staged at Atlantic City, New Jersey, with John Drew in the leading part of Major Pendennis. After a satisfactory tryout, it was taken to New York City. Among Mitchell's other plays were The New Marriage, which Mrs. Fiske produced in 1911 and which was not successful but had a very good first act, and his translation from the Yiddish of Jacob Gordin, The Kreutzer Sonata. In 1927, Mitchell published a critical work, Understanding America. Mitchell lectured on English literature at the George Washington University, for two years (1918 - 20). In 1928, the University of Pennsylvania invited him to be one of five leading playwrights to inaugurate lectures on the drama from a practical point of view, and this engagement led to his appointment as the first professor of playwriting at the university. He conducted courses with great success in this field for two years but owing to personal reasons had to resign in 1930. His interest in the theatre never flagged, and he was constantly revising the work of others as well as writing original plays. He published only one play, The New York Idea (1908), although Becky Sharp was posthumously published. Mitchell died of nephritis in Philadelphia in 1935.
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Quotations:
"If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar. "
"Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's. "
a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters
Langdon Mitchell possessed a charming personality and, contrary to the opinion of those who knew him superficially, was a man of great industry. As was natural for the son of Weir Mitchell, his standards were high, and he felt perhaps too keenly the overshadowing quality of his father's reputation. The large number of unproduced and unpublished manuscripts which he left at his death indicates just how reluctant he was to place on the stage anything unless it was the best work of which he was capable. Mitchell lived for many years in New York City but spent his summers in his house in Santa Fe, N. Mex. In spite of his many wanderings, and a complete lack of provinciality, he was ardently American, and he never ceased to be a Philadelphian in all his instincts. The people in The New York Idea are, as he always acknowledged, really Philadelphians.
In 1892, Mitchell married Marion Lea of Philadelphia, who later created the part of Vida Phillimore in The New York Idea. The couple had three children, Weir, Helena Mary Langdon, and Susanna Valentine.