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Alfred Sutro OBE (7 de agosto de 1863 – 11 de setembro de 1933 [1]) foi um escritor, dramaturgo e tradutor inglês. Biografia. Sutro nasceu em Londres, Inglaterra. Era o mais jovem dos três filhos de Sigismund Sutro, um médico.
Alfred Sutro OBE (7 August 1863 – 11 September 1933) was an English dramatist, writer and translator. In addition to a succession of successful plays of his own in the first quarter of the 20th century, Sutro made the first English translations of works by the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck .
- Early Life
- Sutro Tunnel
- Estate, Baths, and Home
- Mayor
- Family
- Portrayal on TV
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Born to a Jewish family in Aachen, Rhine Province, Prussia (today North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany), Sutro was the oldest of eleven children of Rosa (Warendorff) and Emanuel Sutro. He spent his youth working in his father's cloth factory and at school. After his father's death, he and one of his brothers, Sali (néEmanuel Sali Sutro; 1827–1908), bega...
In 1860, Sutro left San Francisco for Virginia City, Nevada after silver was found in the Comstock Lode with plans to continue selling cigars. He soon devised a concept for a tunnel to drain water from the mines and eliminate the threat of flooding. This concept became the Sutro Tunnel. In 1865 Sutro incorporated the Sutro Tunnel Company and was gr...
Sutro's wealth was increased by large real estate investments in San Francisco, where he became an entrepreneur and public figure after returning from the Comstock in 1879. These land investments included Mount Sutro, Land's End (the area where Lincoln Park and the Cliff House are today), and Mount Davidson, which was called "Blue Mountain" at the ...
Sutro's reputation as a provider of diversions and culture for the average person led the politically weak and radical Populist Party to draft him to run for mayor on their ticket. He won on an anti-big business platform, inveighing against the tight grip that the Southern Pacific Railroadhad over local businesses. According to historian Alexander ...
In 1854, Sutro married Leah Harris (1832–1893).They had seven children: Leah filed for divorce from Adolph in 1879 and the two officially separated on July 3, 1880. Shortly after Adolph's death in 1898, Clara Louisa Kluge (1863–1943) claimed to be his widow by way of common law marriage. She retained attorney Van R. Paterson(1849–1902) and prevaile...
The actor Robert Argent played Sutro in the 1957 episode (season 5, episode 17), "The Man Who Was Never Licked" of the TV show Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. William Hudson was cast in the same episode as Lucky Baldwin, a powerful, 19th-century California businessman.
Robert E. Stewart, Jr. and M.F. Stewart: Adolph Sutro: A Biography, Howell-North Books, 1962The Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museumin Berkeley, California has a large collection of papers relating to Adolph Sutro and the Sutro Tunnel.The Sutro Library in J. Paul Leonard Library at San Francisco State University in San Francisco, houses Adolph Sutro's impressive rare book collection, as well as local history resources and the la...Works by or about Adolph Sutro at Internet ArchiveAdolph Sutro's story Archived August 13, 2004, at the Wayback Machine(written about the time of his death)Newitz, Annalee (January 13, 1999). "In search of Adolph Sutro". San Francisco Bay Guardian. San Francisco. Archived from the original on April 27, 1999. Retrieved September 26, 2016.A Marriage Has Been Arranged (1904) is a one-act play by British author and dramatist Alfred Sutro. The play premiered at the Garrick Theatre, in London, on March 27, 1904, with Arthur Bourchier playing the role of Mr. Harrisson Crockstead and Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Aline de Vaux.
Alfred Sutro (Londres, 7 d'agost de 1863 - 11 de setembre de 1933) va ser un escriptor anglès, dramaturg i traductor d'una sèrie d'obres d'èxit en el primer quart del segle 20. Sutro va fer les primeres traduccions en anglès de les obres de l'escriptor belga Maurice Maeterlinck .
Alfred Sutro, long a member of the California Historical Society, died on March 9, 1945. Mr. Sutro was born in Victoria, B.C., October 15, 1869. He moved to San Francisco with his family in 1875 and resided there until the time of his death.
Alfred Sutro, OBE, (1863 – 1933), was an English author, dramatist and translator, active in the first quarter of the 20th century. Born in London, to Sigismund Sutro, a medical practitioner of German and Spanish Sephardic ancestry, Sutro lived in London, Brussels, and Paris.
