HOWARD, SIDNEY COE (1891— ), American play wright and author, was born in Oakland, Calif., on June 26, 1891. He graduated at the University of California in 1915 and during the next year worked under George Pierce Baker in Harvard uni versity. During the World War he served with the American am bulance corps and was later a captain in the U.S. aviation service. He served on the editorial staff of Life 1919-22, and in 1923 was a feature story writer for Hearst's International Magazine. In 1922 he was married to Clare Eames, the actress. He is the author of the following plays: Swords ), Casanova (1923), They Knew What They Wanted (1925), which won the Pulitzer prize for the best American drama of that year; Lucky Sam McCarver (1925) and The Silver Cord (1926), included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1926-27 (1927), and of many translations and adaptations of European drama. He has also published one volume of short stories, Three Flights Up (1924).