Cale Young Rice
Cale Young Rice (December 7, 1872 – January 24, 1943) was an American poet and dramatist.
Life and career
He was born in Dixon, Kentucky, to Laban Marchbanks Rice, a Confederate veteran and tobacco merchant, and his wife Martha Lacy. He was a younger brother of Laban Lacy Rice, a noted educator. Cale Rice grew up in Evansville, Indiana, and Louisville, Kentucky. He was educated at Cumberland University and at Harvard (A.B., 1895; A.M., 1896).
He was married to the popular author Alice Hegan Rice; they worked together on several books. The marriage was childless, and Cale committed suicide by gunshot during the night of January 23–24[1] at his home in Louisville a year after her death due to his sorrow at losing her.[2]
Cale Rice's poems were collected and published in a single volume by his brother, Laban Lacy Rice.
His birthplace in Dixon is designated by Kentucky State Historical Marker 1508, which reads:
"Birthplace of Rice brothers, Cale Young, 1872-1943, noted poet and author; Laban Lacy, 1870-1973, well-known educator and author. Lacy published The Best Poetic Works of Cale Young Rice after Cale's death. Included in famous collection is poem, "The Mystic." Cale married Alice Hegan, also a distinguished Kentucky writer. Home overlooks Memorial Garden." [3]
Rice adapted his play Yolanda of Cyprus into an opera libretto for Clarence Loomis; the resulting work was premiered on September 25, 1929 in London, Ontario, under the baton of Isaac Van Grove, and featured Charles Kullman. The production was directed by Vladimir Rosing.[4] The opera later received the Bispham Memorial Medal Award.[5]
Earlier works
Verse
- From Dusk to Dusk (1898)
- With Omar (1900)
- Song Surf (1900)
- Nirvana Days (1908)
- Many Gods (1910)
- At the World's Heart (1914)
Plays
- Charles di Tocca (1903)
- Yolanda of Cyprus (1906)
- A Night in Avignon (1907)
- The Immortal Lure (1911)
- Porzia (1913)
Collection
- Collected Plays and Poems (two volumes, 1915)
References
- ↑ John E. Kleber - The Kentucky Encyclopedia
- ↑ Lowell Hayes Harrison, A New History of Kentucky (1997), p. 324.
- ↑ "Search For Markers". Retrieved 27 July 2016.
- ↑ Margaret Ross Griffel; Adrienne Fried Block (1999). Operas in English: A Dictionary. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25310-2.
- ↑ Ken Wlaschin (2006). Encyclopedia of American Opera. McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-2109-1.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Thurston, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
External links
- Works by Cale Young Rice at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Cale Young Rice at Internet Archive
- Works by Cale Young Rice at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- "PLAYS AND LYRICS.; The Collected Poems of Cale Young Rice -- His Tragedies "Yolanda of Cyprus" and "David."". New York Times. August 11, 1906. Retrieved 2008-08-10.
- Cale Young Rice on Find a Grave
- Guide to the Cale Young Rice papers, 1927-1939 housed at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center