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Sutton Vane

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Original name:
Vane Sutton-vane
Born:
Nov. 9, 1888, England
Died:
June 15, 1963, Hastings, Sussex (aged 74)

Sutton Vane (born Nov. 9, 1888, England—died June 15, 1963, Hastings, Sussex) was an English playwright, remembered for his unusual and highly successful play Outward Bound (1923), about a group of passengers who find themselves making an ocean voyage on a ship that seems to have no crew. Slowly they realize that they are dead and bound for the other world, which is both heaven and hell. Vane, who started his career as an actor, was shell-shocked early in World War I. Later in the war he returned to France to perform behind the lines. Back home in England, he ...(100 of 157 words)

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