[1] His grandfather was Hungarian novelist József Eötvös who is sometimes listed as Joseph von Etooes.

He was the author of numerous plays, among which are: Gossip (with Clyde Fitch, 1895); A Southern Romance (1897); The Last Appeal (1901); What's the Matter with Susan?

(1904); The Ambitious Mrs. Susan (1907); The Million (from the French, 1911); The Concert (1910); The Temperamental Journey (1913); The Great Lover (1915); The Judge of Zalmea (1917).

Ditrichstein appeared in one motion picture, in a cameo as himself, in How Molly Made Good (1915).

[1] Some of the plays Ditrichstein either wrote or acted in have been made into motion pictures.