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Born | 1872
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Died | 1938
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Epes Winthrop Sargent (August 21, 1872, in Nassau, Bahamas – Dec. 6, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American vaudeville critic who wrote under the pen-names Chicot [1] and Chic [1]. He was also a screenwriter.
He was considered "one of vaudeville's most influential critics and commentators". [2]
He was born in Nassau, Bahamas [1] on August 21, 1872, and moved to the United States in 1878 with his parents.
He first worked as a critic for the New York paper, the Daily Mercury. [2] [1] In the 1890s, he joined the New York Morning Telegraph.
He claimed to have critiqued the first motion picture offered in a theatre, becoming a film fan in the process." [3] In 1905, when Variety began publication, [1] he joined them as their first reviewer and wrote for them intermittently until his death.
In 1911, he became a staff writer for The Moving Picture World. They serialized his Technique of the Photoplay, which was soon published as a book.
In 1914–1915 he wrote the stories for a large number of split-reel and one-reel silent comedies produced by Arthur Hotaling at the Jacksonville, Florida, studio of the Lubin Manufacturing Company, which included the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy. [4]
Epes W. Sargent | |
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Born | 1872
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Died | 1938
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Epes Winthrop Sargent (August 21, 1872, in Nassau, Bahamas – Dec. 6, 1938 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American vaudeville critic who wrote under the pen-names Chicot [1] and Chic [1]. He was also a screenwriter.
He was considered "one of vaudeville's most influential critics and commentators". [2]
He was born in Nassau, Bahamas [1] on August 21, 1872, and moved to the United States in 1878 with his parents.
He first worked as a critic for the New York paper, the Daily Mercury. [2] [1] In the 1890s, he joined the New York Morning Telegraph.
He claimed to have critiqued the first motion picture offered in a theatre, becoming a film fan in the process." [3] In 1905, when Variety began publication, [1] he joined them as their first reviewer and wrote for them intermittently until his death.
In 1911, he became a staff writer for The Moving Picture World. They serialized his Technique of the Photoplay, which was soon published as a book.
In 1914–1915 he wrote the stories for a large number of split-reel and one-reel silent comedies produced by Arthur Hotaling at the Jacksonville, Florida, studio of the Lubin Manufacturing Company, which included the earliest screen appearances of Oliver Hardy. [4]