Burns Mantle

Burns Mantle
Born	Robert Burns Mantle (1873-12-23)December 23, 1873 Watertown, New York, United States
Died	Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States
Occupation	Newspaper theatre critic
Language	English
Genre	Criticism
Subject	Theatre

Robert Burns Mantle (December 23, 1873 – February 9, 1948) was an American theatre critic. He founded the Best Plays annual publication in 1920.

Biography

Mantle was born in Watertown, New York, on December 23, 1873, to Robert Burns Mantle and Susan Lawrence. As a child he moved to Denver, Colorado.

By 1892, he was working as a linotype machine operator in California and then became a reporter.

By the late 1890s, Mantle was working as a drama critic for the Denver Times. He later moved to Chicago, Illinois, and then New York City, New York, in 1911. He was at the New York Evening Mail until 1922, and then the Daily News until his retirement in 1943. Mantle was succeeded as the drama critic at the Daily News by his assistant John Arthur Chapman.

He died, aged 74, of stomach cancer on February 9, 1948.

External links

• Burns Mantle at the Internet Broadway Database
• Burns Mantle at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Burns Mantle in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• The Best Plays Theater Yearbook - Page on Mantle

• Chansky, Dorothy (2011). "Burns Mantle and the American Theatregoing Public", in Theatre History Studies (via Google Books). Vol. 31.
• Staff (August 16, 1943). Burns Mantle Quits as Drama Reviewer". Associated Press (via The Gazette via Google News). Retrieved February 16, 2012.
• Abstract (August 15, 1943). "Burns Mantle Retires". The New York Times. (subscription required) for full article.