DIX, BEULAH MARIE

(1876-1970)

   The prolific author of plays, novels, and motion picture scripts was born in Kingston, Massachusetts. She graduated summa cum laude from Radcliffe in 1893 and began writing plays and historical novels in the 1890s. Among those produced in New York were A Rose o 'Plymouth Town (1902), Boy O'Carroll (1906), The Road to Yesterday (1907), and The Lilac Room (1907), all with Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland. Among her solo pieces were the antiwAR plays Across the Border (1915, one-act) and Moloch (1916). She was married to George H. Flebbe. Around 1916, Cecil B. DeMille brought her to Hollywood, where Dix scripted several Sherlock Holmes films as well as others for stars like Norma Shearer.