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Roi Cooper Megrue was born on June 12, 1883 in New York City, and was the son of Frank Newton and Stella Georgiana (Cooper) Megrue.
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Roi Cooper Megrue was born on June 12, 1883 in New York City, and was the son of Frank Newton and Stella Georgiana (Cooper) Megrue.
Megrue studied at Columbia University, from which he was graduated in 1903.
Megrue's first contacts with the professional stage were made in a clerical position in the play-brokerage offices of Elizabeth Marbury. His first play to be acted, after many discouragements and disheartening delays, was White Magic, which he completed from an unfinished dramatization of David Graham Phillips' novel of that title. It was produced at the Criterion Theatre in New York on January 24, 1912, with Gertrude Elliott as the star, and although it met with but little popularity, it was really the starting point of his brief career. His first successful play was Under Cover, a sensational drama involving a smuggled necklace, a mysterious secret-service quest, and New York Custom-House graft. It was first acted in Boston in 1913, and was followed in succession by It Pays to Advertise (1914), written in collaboration with Walter Hackett; Under Fire (1915), one of the first plays dealing with the World War, and having for its crucial scene the German troops entering a German city; Potash and Perlmutter in Society, first called Abe and Mawruss (1915), written in collaboration with Montague Glass; Seven Chances (1916); Under Sentence (1916), written in collaboration with Irvin S. Cobb; Where Poppies Bloom (1918), from the French; and Tea for Three (1918), taken from a play by Carl Slaboda. Several of these plays were acted in London, but they attracted little notice there.
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Megrue was a typical playwright who wrote always with his finger on the public pulse, with his eye on the footlights, and with his mind on events as they were recorded on the first page of the daily newspaper. After passing through some five years of popularity, he was unable to keep up with the demands of those play-goers who had grown enthusiastic about Under Cover. He found that he had exhausted his vein, and that he could not attract the public indefinitely by means of ephemeral sensation. His view of the dramatist's technique was unblushingly revealed by him in an interview in which he declared that the only kind of art he knew was the ability to get his plays over the footlights. For some years prior to his death, he was little heard of by the play-going public except through an occasional stock-company revival of one or two of his best-known plays.
Megrue never married.