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ST. JOHN GREER, an Irish dramatist and novelist. He was born at Belfast in 1883 and first came into notice in connection with the Abbey ERZERUM Theater, Dublin, which in 1913 produced his one-act play, "The Magnanimous Lover," written by him in 1907. In 1910 he wrote a four-act play, "Mixed Marriage," produced by the Abbey Theater in 1911. Other of his plays are "John Ferguson," played with great success in New York in 1919, and "Jane Clegg ," played in New York in 1920. His novels include: “Mrs. Martin's Man," "Alice and a Family," "Changing Winds," and "The Foolish Lovers." He was trooper in the Household Battalion in the World War; after serving as 2d lieutenant, Dublin Fusiliers, was wounded, May, 1918, and invalided home. He wrote a political study, "Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Movement," and and he lectured in the United States in 1920.