Leo Ditrichstein

He made his New York début in Die Ehre (1890). This was followed by Mr. Wilkinson's Widows, Trilby, Are You a Mason? and other plays. He was featured in Right is Might by Pedro Calderon de la Barca at the Lyric Theatre in Philadelphia in 1923.^[3] He was the author of numerous plays, among which are: Gossip (with Clyde Fitch, 1895); A Southern Romance (1897); The Last Appeal (1901); What's the Matter with Susan? (1904); The Ambitious Mrs. Susan (1907); The Million (from the French, 1911); The Concert (1910); The Temperamental Journey (1913); The Great Lover (1915); The Judge of Zalmea (1917). Ditrichstein appeared in one motion picture, in a cameo as himself, in How Molly Made Good (1915).^[1]

Some of the plays Ditrichstein either wrote or acted in have been made into motion pictures. The Divorce Game (1917) was based on his play Mlle. Fifi.^[4]

He died on June 28, 1928, from heart disease at the Auersperg Sanitarium in Vienna.^[1]

NOTE: I could not find Leo Ditrichstein in the New. International Encyclopedia.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Leo Ditrichstein". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.

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