Word: awarders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following Edward Bok's appearance before a Senate Committee investigating propaganda (TIME, Jan. 28), at which he said 1) that he had paid all the expenses of his Peace Award and 2) that he did not know and would not tell how much the Peace Award had cost, he was notified that he would not be recalled before the Committee. But Mr. Bok had not finished. He wrote to Senator Moses, Chairman of the Committee. He offered to ask the Policy Committee of the Peace Award to turn over to the Senate Committee the 22,164 rejected plans...
...lieu of any royalties. He will also receive a contract guaranteeing a production of the play within six months of its acceptance. In 1922 "You and I" by Philip Barry won the prize and was produced in 1923 in New York and Chicago. In 1923 the award went to Miss Dorothy Kuhn's comedy "The Dud" which is scheduled for production in New York this season...
...Senate passed it without a dissenting vote. Two hours later Senator Cummins, President of the Senate, announced the personnel of the Committee (including Mr. Reed). Before the day was over the Committee had organized and taken action. Edward W. Bok and Esther Everett Lape (Chairman of his Peace Award Committee) were summoned to testify as to their activities...
Although there was hoarse outcry from great groups of intelligentsia over the award last year (Icebound by Owen Davis) the verdict is usually accepted and the winning play recognized as the leader in native dramatic literature. In face of the quantity and quality of successful American plays produced last year, this judgment for 1923 will be no moderate honor...
...Pulitzer prize plays since 1916. 1917?No award. 1918?Why Marry by Jesse Lynch Williams. 1919?No award. 1920?Beyond the Horizon by Eugene O'Neill. 1921?Miss Lulu Bett by Zona Gale. 1922?Anna Christie by Eugene O'Neill. 1923?Icebound by Owen Davis...