Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pirandello, creator of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' is probably the best example of this movement...
...graduate of Mercer University, Georgia, Dr. Straton was ordained a Baptist minister in 1900. He has won numerous oratorial prizes, is a trustee of the Anti-Saloon League of America, and the author of a series of books on religious questions He has been prominently identified with education and the church during the last twenty-five years, until today he is one of the most aggressive leaders of Fundamentalism...
Peter, a would-be author from an up-State New York village, who closely resembles a popular edition of a current prince, is the center of amusement in the production. He has tried without success to publish a book which he has written, and finally decides to go to New York City to interview a publisher. Unfortunately he arrives in the city on the very day on which the Prince, whom he resembles, is expected. He is taken for the Prince and the ensuing action arises from his mistaken identity. Mary, the heroine, serves to goad Peter on through...
...Finney Author of Book...
This play, which is the 39th annual production of the Cercle Francais, was written in 1881. The author was known as a keen student of the adolescent girl in all her complexities and vicissitudes. He shows her manner of laughing, sometimes mocking, sometimes subdued; he pictures her amiable in her troubles, and proud in her regrets. He shows how she attempts to conceal her preferences, then how she betrays herself, blushes, and becomes care-free and dreamy when love knocks at the door...