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Emery, Gilbert

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Emery, Gilbert, pseudonym of Emery Bemsley Pottle (1875–1945), New York playwright, who graduated from Amherst, served in World War I, and in 1921 wrote his first and most successful play, The Hero. His later plays include Queed (1921), a dramatization of the novel by H.S. Harrison; Tarnish (1923), concerned with the triumph of a girl's love over her hatred of her fiancé's weakness; Episode (1925), a domestic drama in which a man submits to his wife's indiscretions because he does not wish to disturb their placid social life; Love‐in‐a‐Mist (1926), a comedy written in collaboration with Amélie Rives; and Thank You, Doctor (1928), a one‐act melodramatic farce.

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Emery, Gilbert. See Hero, The.

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