EDWIN HUNTER PENDLETON ARDEN

'Edwin Hunter Pendleton Arden' (February 4, 1864 – October 2, 1918) was an actor, theatre manager, and playwright.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Richard Arden and Mary Berkeley Huntingdon Smith. After a common-school education he traveled west and worked in a number of fields, including as a mine-helper, cowboy, railroad brakeman, clerk, reporter, and theatre manager. In 1882, he made his debut as an actor with Thomas Keene's Shakespeare company. The next year, in 1883, he married Agnes Ann Eagleson Keene. Around this time, he wrote several plays, including ''The Eagle's Nest'', ''Raglan's Way'', ''Barred Out'', and ''Zorah''. He worked with a number of theatrical companies over the next thirty years, performing in such works as Edmond Rostand's ''L'Aiglon'', Victorien Sardou's ''Fédora'', and in an all-star production of ''Romeo and Juliet'' at the Knickerbocker Theatre in New York. In his later years, he had his own stock theatre company in Washington, D.C.

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★ Johnson, Allen, editor. ''Dictionary of American Biography''. New York:Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964.

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