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'''Arthur Lee Kahn''', pen name, '''Lee Arthur''' (July 14, 1870 – December 9, 1917), was a Broadway and early motion-picture [[playwright]].  

'''Arthur Lee Kahn''', pen name, '''Lee Arthur''' (July 14, 1870 – December 9, 1917), was a [[Broadway]] and early motion-picture [[playwright]].  

Born in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], he was a son of the merchant Aaron Kahn (1838-1918) and the former Julia Sour (1851-1899).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15549107/aaron-kahn|title=Aaron Kahn|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref>

Born in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], he was a son of the merchant Aaron Kahn (1838-1918) and the former Julia Sour (1851-1899).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15549107/aaron-kahn|title=Aaron Kahn|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref> Arthur studied at Thatcher Academy in Shreveport and received a law degree in 1891 from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]]. At Tulane, he penned his first play, ''Double Wedding'' (1890) and continued writing, 1891-1893, while practicing law in Shreveport. In 1893, he left his law practice for a year to travel with a theatre group, the Clay Clements Company. He then began his career as Lee Arthur, the playwright. In 1896, his play, ''While the Cat’s Away,'' was produced by director Henry W. Savage at the Bayou Theatre on Broadway. For twenty years, Arthur’s plays were produced on Broadway and in theatres across the country. Among the best known are ''Pvt. John Allen,'' which opened in 1898 in [[Washington, D.C.]], ''We-Uns of Tennessee,'' which opened at the American Theatre in New York in 1900, and his most popular play, ''The Auctioneer,''<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-k/|title=Kahn, Arthur Lee (pen name Lee Arthur)|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref> which opened in 1913 at the Belasco Theatre in New York and was still playing on Broadway into the 1920s, after Arthur's death.<ref>Paul T. Nolan, ed., ''The One Act Plays of Lee Arthur'' (1962).</ref>  

Arthur studied at Thatcher Academy in Shreveport and received a law degree in 1891 from [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]]. At Tulane, he penned his first play, ''Double Wedding'' (1890) and continued writing, 1891-1893, while practicing law in Shreveport. In 1893, he left his law practice for a year to travel with a theatre group, the Clay Clements Company. He then began his career as Lee Arthur, the playwright. In 1896, his play, ''While the Cat’s Away,'' was produced by director Henry W. Savage at the Bayou Theatre on Broadway. For twenty years, Arthur’s plays were produced on Broadway and in theatres across the country. Among the best known are ''Pvt. John Allen,'' which opened in 1898 in [[Washington, D.C.]], ''We-Uns of Tennessee,'' which opened at the American Theatre in New York in 1900, and his most popular play, ''The Auctioneer,''<ref name=lahist>{{cite web|url=https://www.lahistory.org/resources/dictionary-louisiana-biography/dictionary-louisiana-biography-k/|title=Kahn, Arthur Lee (pen name Lee Arthur)|publisher=''A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography'': Louisiana Historical Association|accessdate=April 30, 2020}}</ref> which opened in 1913 at the Belasco Theatre in New York and was still playing on Broadway into the 1920s, after Arthur's death.<ref>Paul T. Nolan, ed., ''The One Act Plays of Lee Arthur'' (1962).</ref>  

In 1910, he began writing film scripts, first with the Keystone Company and later with the Balboa Company. He wrote slapstick, situation comedies, and melodramas. In 1917, he sustained serious injuries in an [[automobile]] accident in 1917 and while he recovering contracted [[pneumonia]], which took his life at the age of forty-seven. He died in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and is interred alongside his parents at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' December 17, 1917.</ref><ref name=lahist/> His father died some six months after Arthur's death.

In 1910, he began writing film scripts, first with the Keystone Company and later with the Balboa Company. He wrote slapstick, situation comedies, and melodramas. In 1917, he sustained serious injuries in an [[automobile]] accident in 1917 and while he recovering contracted [[pneumonia]], which took his life at the age of forty-seven. He died in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], and is interred alongside his parents at Hebrew Rest Cemetery in Shreveport.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]]'' December 17, 1917.</ref><ref name=lahist/> His father died some six months after Arthur's death.