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CHARLES HALE, an American playwright; born at Concord, N. H., in 1860. He was educated in the public schools of Boston and following a period passed in the cattle business in the West, entered newspaper work. For several years he was musical and dramatic critic of the "Boston Post." He turned to the writing of plays and produced a series of farcical comedies which in their presentation of certain phases of American life have never been surpassed. The best known of these are "A Trip to Chinatown" (1890), and "A Milk-White Flag" (1893). He was twice elected a member of the New Hampshire Legislature. He died in 1900.