Author:Charles Belmont Davis

Charles Belmont Davis
(1866–1926)

American journalist, writer, publisher and dramatic critic; son of Rebecca Harding Davis and brother of Richard Harding Davis

Charles Belmont Davis

Works

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  • The Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis. 1917.
  • The Borderland of Society (Chicago and NY: H. S. Stone & Co., 1898). [short stories]
  • Her Own Sort, and Others. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1917. *short stories+
  • In Another Moment. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1913. [novel]
  • The Lodger Overhead, and Others. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1909. [short stories]
  • Nothing a Year. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. [novel]
  • The Stage Door. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1908. [short stories]
  • Tales of the Town. New York: Duffield & Co., 1911. [short stories]

Fiction

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  • “The Altar of Her Beauty.” Ladies Home Journal (June n.y.): 9-.
  • “Beaded Butterfly.” Collier’s Weekly (1 Feb. 1919).
  • “The Countess Veschi’s Jewels.” Pearson’s Magazine 21 (June 1909): 592-606.
  • “The Discoverer.” Chicago Tribune Monthly Magazine Section (Aug. ? 1910).
  • “The Empty Throne.” Collier’s Weekly (28 Oct. 1916).
  • “The Essential Essence.” Washington Post (8 Aug. 1918): 11, 68.
  • “Ethics.” Illustrated Sunday Magazine (16 July 1916).
  • “The Ethics of Nelson Cole.” Scribner’s Magazine 71 (Jan. 1922): 23-34.
  • “A Freak’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.” New Peterson Magazine 1 (Mar. 1893): 287-93.
  • “A Friend of the Family.” Century Illustrated Magazine 44 (July 1892): 453-56.
  • “The Gloversville Plunger.” Munsey’s Magazine 24 (Mar. 1901): 846-51.
  • “God’s Material.” Scribner’s (Nov. 1916).
  • “The Great Sympathetic Strike.” Century Illustrated Magazine 47 (Mar. 1894): 652-56.
  • “Gusenburger.” McBride’s Magazine 96 (Nov. 1915): 55-64.
  • “Her Man.” Metroplitan 36 (May 1912): 9-11.
  • “Her Own Sort.” Scribner’s (Dec. 1915).
  • “His Sister.” Metropolitan Magazine (Feb. 1920).
  • “How Philip Adams Demonstrated that His Life Had Not Been a Total Failure.” Munsey’s Magazine 81 (1924): 301-.
  • “The Joy of Dying.” Smart Set 46 (): 371-78.
  • “La Gommeuse.” Harper’s Magazine (Mar. 1897): 572-79.
  • “The Last Chance.” Independent (16 July 1891): 38-39.
  • “A Life Sentence.” Smart Set (Nov. 1903).
  • “The Long-Wait Man.” Munsey’s Magazine 54 (May 1915): 513-.
  • “The Love of Marguerite Montgomery.” Washington Post (17 Feb. 1918); rpt. from Reader Magazine (July 1905).
  • “Lucky at Cards.” Metropolitan Magazine 37 (1912): 7-.
  • “Marooned.” Hampton Magazine (1909): 634-.
  • “The Mystery.” Galveston Daily News (24 Jan. 1915): 32.
  • “A Modern Cleopatra.” Cosmopolitan 27 (Aug. 1899): 423-30.
  • “The Octopus.” Cosmopolitan 50 (Dec. 1910): 759-70.
  • “Once to Every Man.” Washington Post (15 May 1921): 90-93.
  • “Our Old Friends from the Musical Comedies.” Collier’s (6 June 1908): 16-17.
  • “Our Street.” Collier’s Weekly (Aug? 1908).
  • “Out of Her Class.” Century Illustrated Magazine 47 (Jan. 1894): 357-64.
  • “Patsy Durgan’s Love Affair.” The Illustrated Sunday Magazine (5 Mar. 1916)
  • “The Romance of a Rich Young Girl.” Pearson’s Magazine 22 (Sept. 1909): 323-.
  • “Sedgwick.” Collier’s (21 Mar. 1908): 16-18.
  • “Small Part People.” Metropolitan Magazine (Aug. 1921).
  • “The Third Class.” Pearson’s Magazine 19 (Jan. 1908): 660-64.
  • “Tommy.” Scribner’s (Dec. 1904). (illustrated by N.C. Wyeth)
  • “Wattlesburg Tennis Champion.” Ladies Home Journal (July 1919).
  • “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Metropolitan 40 (Oct. 1914): 27-31.
  • “Where Ignorance Was Bliss.” Collier’s 46 (no other information).
  • “The White Light of Publicity.” Saturday Evening Post (13 Mar. 1908):
  • “The Wooing of Delisea.” Everybody’s Magazine (Mar. 1905):
  • “The Wreath of Pines.” The Illustrated Sunday Magazine (15 Aug. 1915)

Nonfiction

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  • “The American at Play.” Outing Magazine 43 (Dec. 1903): 261-71.
  • “Behind the Scenes.” Outing Magazine 49 (Mar. 1907): 705-16.
  • “A Chorus Girl’s Club.” Collier’s Weekly (10 May 1911): 18, 29-30.
  • “The Circus.” Outing Magazine 44 (May 1904): 145-54.
  • “The City of Homes.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 89 (June 1894): 3-20.
  • “A Coronation Sideshow.” Collier’s (22 July 1911); rpt. in Laredo Times (30 July 1911): 7.
  • “The Cost of Transporting Big Shows.” New Oxford (PA) Item (5 Nov. 1908): 6; rpt. from Lippincott’s.
  • “‘Court’ Circles at Wisconsin.” Collier’s Weekly (23 July 1910): 14-16.
  • “Edward Penfield and His Art.” The Critic 34 (Mar. 1899).
  • “The Executors.” Ref’d in Quarterly Review 1908.
  • “A Few Stray Thoughts on Ocean Travel.” Outing Magazine 42 (June 1903): 373-78.
  • “Frederic Remington—The Man and His Work.” Harper’s (Dec. 1894).
  • “The Girl and The Stage.” Collier’s Weekly (1909): 21-22.
  • “A Hatless Paradise: The Adventures of a Lost Man Who Went to Discover the ‘College Girl.’” Collier’s (10 June 1905).
  • “In New York Theaters.” Syracuse Herald - a drama-review column that ran from April 5, 1925 to May 25, 1925; and June 14, 1926, to Aug. 29, 1926. [Probably serving as a summer replacement for the regular critic]
  • “Introduction.” Richard Harding Davis: A Bibliography by Henry Cole Quinby. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1924. xiii-xviii.
  • “Mr. Charles Dana Gibson and his Art.” The Critic 34 (Jan. 1899): 48-55.
  • “New York in the Good Old Summer Time.” Outing Magazine 42 (Sept. 1903): 668-74.
  • “The New York Horse Show.” Outing Magazine 41 (Feb. 1903): 551-59.
  • “On the Road with The Players.” Outing Magazine 52 (Aug. 1908): 529-41.
  • “Percy Hammond’s Letter.” Hartford Courant (5 Apr. 1925-28 June 1925). [CBD took over the Courant’s theatre critic’s column in his absence.
  • “Queen Titania and Prince Charming of Ashbury Park.” Outing Magazine 48 (Sept. 1906): 689-700.
  • “The Renaissance of Coney Island.” Outing Magazine 48 (Aug. 1906): 513-22.
  • “The Rialto.” Outing Magazine 49 (Oct. 1906): 19-27.
  • “The Rise of the Dancing-Girl.” New Peterson Magazine 2 (Aug. 1893): 741-50.
  • “‘Rose-Marie’ Scores with Mary Ellis and Her Strong Support.” New York Tribune (3 Sept. 1924): 12.
  • “‘Roseanne’ Somber Study of Primitive Customs of Negro.” New York Herald (31 Dec. 1923): 6.
  • “The Vaudeville Club.” Harper’s Weekly 37 (Feb. 1893): 116.

Films

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(original story or adaptations of his stories)

  • Countess Veschi’s Jewels, 1914 (from the story of the same title)
  • Handle With Care, 1923 (story by CBD)
  • The Home Stretch, 1921 (adaptation of his story “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”)
  • Mother o’ Mine, 1921 (adaptation of his story “The Octopus”)
  • The Octopus, 1915 (adaptation of his story of the same name)
  • A Romantic Adventuress, 1920 (adaptation of his story “A Winter City Favorite”)
  • A Studio Escapade, 1915 (story by CBD)
  • The White Light of Publicity, 1915 (based on his story of the same name)
  • A Woman’s Business, 1920 (adaptation of his novel Nothing a Year)

Musical Scores

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  • Copenhagen, 1924 (performed by Louis Armstrong in 1950s; in Stanford University Library)


 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


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