Colton, John B.

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Colton, John B. (1886–1946), playwright. Son of an English diplomat who was serving in Yokohama, Japan, at the time of his birth, he came to America where he found work as drama critic of the Minneapolis Tribune. His first play to reach New York was Drifting (1922), written with D. H. Andrews. It dealt with a woman who is ready to become a prostitute, a variation of a theme that would appear in most of his plays. Colton's hits were Rain (1922), based on a Somerset Maugham story and written with Clemence Randolph, and The Shanghai Gesture (1926). His last plays, Saint Wench (1933) and Nine Pine Street (1933), were failures.

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