ROWE, LOUIS EARLE

(1882), director of art museum, b. at Providence, R.f., s. of Thomas Richard and Arvilla Pollard Rowe. He was educated at Brown University and at the American School of Cla ical Studies, Athens. He became a teacher in 1908 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and later was also a istant in charge of the Egyptian Department at that institution, 1909-12, and a istant in history at the Ma achusetts Inst. Tech., 1910-12, after which he became director of the Rhode Island School of Eng. dramatist; best-known plays are Tamer lane, The Fair Penttent, and The Tragedy of Jane Shore. His reputation as a dramatist was eclipsed by his edition of Shakespeare.