Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fool." When Dr. Thorpe's Iawyers mentioned the name of John Barrymore, whom they proposed to question in connection with "statements in Miss Astor's diary," that life-worn old actor immediately reported sick in a Culver City sanitarium. However, no screen lover but a sad-eyed dramatist was cast as Miss Astor's No. 1 partner-in-sin. Browsing through Miss Astor's diary, the doctor's lawyers said they found that she had recorded experiencing a "thrilling ecstasy" in the company of George S. Kaufman (Merrily We Roll Along, Once in a Lifetime...
...spread upon the mother University. When Rudyard Kipling's "If" is chosen favorite poem year after year, when milk is named as the most popular beverage, when Petty is universally regarded as the favorite artist, we cannot but feel there are evil forces afoot in Nassau. Something, as "favorite-dramatist" Shakespeare once said, is rotten in the state of New Jersey. Certainly the football set-up is not to blame. Coach Crisler came into his share of the boodle and Captain Constable was rail-roaded into several offices with vote reminiscent of the Roosevelt landslide...
...restrict her use of hotel service to $25 a week. Grumbled she: "I cannot carry on the traditions of the Grant family on a mere $25 a week. ... As Mae West might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound...
Irishmen, by & large, are poor sailors but excellent admirals. The late Earl Beatty was an Irish admiral. So is Edward VIII's chief naval aide-de-camp, Admiral Sir William ("Ginger") Boyle. Irish Dramatist Lord Dunsany's brother, Vice Admiral Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, is Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth, and the principal naval aide-de-camp to George V was an Admiral Kelly...
Critical consensus was that the Irish dramatist, well past his productive prime, had never been seen to better advantage...