Henry J. W. Dam
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Henry Jackson Wells Dam (1856 – April 26, 1906) was a journalist and playwright.[1][2] His story "The Red Mouse" was adapted for the film Her Silent Sacrifice. He wrote the words to the musical comedy The Shop Girl. He had one of the early interviews with Wilhelm Röntgen about his Röntgen rays (X-rays) in 1896. He also interviewed Guglielmo Marconi about his radio telegraph transmitter in 1897.
His work was published in McClure's Magazine,[3][4] He was also a playwright.[5] The Black Cat, and The Strand Magazine.
Dam traveled to London the cover the Jack the Ripper murders and has been discussed as a possible author of some of the Jack the Ripper letters.[1]
He was born in San Francisco and moved to London where he married stage actress Dorothy Dorr (1866–1940). They had two children, Colby Dorr Dam and Losing Dam. The family returned to the U.S. in the early 20th century.[1]
He died in of cancer in Havana, Cuba.[6]
A heliograph image of him is at The American Vaudeville Museum Archive at the University of Arizona from his musical comedy The Shop Girl (1894).[7]
Work
Plays
- I want yer, ma honey : an Ethiopian oddity, with Fay Templeton
- Carmelita (1883)
- The Silver Shell, a play (1893)[8]
- The Shop Girl : musical farce, music by Ivan Caryll
- The White Silk Dress, a play
Stories
- "Monsieur Bibi's Boom-Boom", The Strand Magazine (1900)
- "The Red Mouse"
- "The Transmogrification of Dan" in The Smart Set magazine (1901)[9]
Articles
- "The Rontgen Rays in America", McClure's about William Konrad Rontgen's work on X-rays, New York (April, 1896)
- "The Terrible Vesuvis", Windsor Magazine (1898)
- The Mystery of Vesuvius (1898)
- "The New Telegraphy: An interview with Signor Marconi", The Strand Magazine, George Newnes, Ltd., London, Vol. 13, No. 75, March 1897
- "The tax on moustaches" Strand Magazine, Newnes, London (1899)
- The Making of the Bible
- "Practical Penology", North American Review, May 1887, pages 514-523
- "A Morning with Bret Harte", December 1894 McClure's Magazine
References
- ^ a b c Begg, Paul (April 18, 2013). "Jack the Ripper: The Facts". Pavilion Books – via Google Books.
- ^ "DEATH LIST OF A DAY.; Henry Jackson Wells Dam". April 27, 1906 – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ Scharnhorst, Gary (April 15, 2010). "Twain in His Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates". University of Iowa Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "McClure's Magazine". S.S. McClure. June 17, 1896 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Current Opinion". Current Literature Publishing Company. February 17, 1895 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The World Almanac & Book of Facts". Newspaper Enterprise Association. February 17, 1906 – via Google Books.
- ^ "H.J.W. Dam – The American Vaudeville Archive — Special Collections".
- ^ "Truth". February 17, 1893 – via Google Books.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=LdQxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=%22Henry+j.+w.+Dam%22+new+york+times&source=bl&ots=FLYx10_Qy8&sig=ACfU3U3nLgsyrm5bW5ETTMCwXHoqNf5H2w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqsrv29NnnAhXFt1kKHdj9Af4Q6AEwA3oECAsQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Henry%20j.%20w.%20Dam%22%20new%20york%20times&f=false
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- Journalists from California
- American magazine writers
- 19th-century American journalists
- 1856 births
- Writers from San Francisco
- 19th-century American male writers
- American male journalists
- American male dramatists and playwrights
- 19th-century American dramatists and playwrights
- 1906 deaths
- 20th-century American male writers
- Deaths from cancer in Cuba
- American expatriates in the United Kingdom
- 20th-century American writers