He later worked in film and stage production, including the Broadway 1981 play A Talent for Murder, featuring Claudette Colbert.
Lowe was born in Poland, the eldest son of an Orthodox rabbi, and studied in the British Mandate of Palestine before relocating to the United States at the age of eighteen.
[2] While working as a traveling toy salesman in December 1929, Lowe encountered a group at an Atlanta, Georgia carnival engaged in a game called Beano.
Returning to his Brooklyn, NY, home, he organized a game with several friends, one of whom became so excited at winning, she shouted "Bingo!"
E. S. Lowe produced miniature chess and checker game sets that circulated widely among U.S. service personnel in World War II.