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Charles Nevers Holmes
Known for light comedies and magazine pieces from the early 1900s, this writer moved easily between the stage and the page. His work ranges from domestic farce to curious, forward-looking essays like a 1920 piece asking whether people might someday visit the moon.
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Please pass the cream: A comedy
by Charles Nevers Holmes
About the author
Charles Nevers Holmes was an American writer active in the early twentieth century. Surviving publications show him writing short plays and comedies, including A Paper Wedding, Please Pass the Cream, Their First Quarrel, Smith's Unlucky Day, and The Star Boarder.
He also appears in period magazines and miscellanies as a contributor of poems, essays, and other short pieces. One especially memorable example is "Shall We Ever Be Able to Visit the Moon?" from 1920, which shows an interest in science and popular explanation alongside his more theatrical work.
The biographical record available online is quite thin, so many personal details remain unclear. Even so, the works that survive suggest a versatile, readable author whose writing fit comfortably into the lively magazine and amateur-theater culture of his time.