Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lee Wilson Dodd, 53, poet, dramatist, novelist (Speed, The Changelings, Pals First, The Book of Susan); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Next autumn he was to have succeeded Professor George Pierce Baker as active instructor of playwriting in Yale's famed Department of Drama...
After a temporary incandescence in the Metropolitan Opera House, Mr. Bernard Shaw has concluded his American visit. Mr. Shaw came to a nation which possessed of him varying estimates, where he was severally regarded as an able dramatist, a senile jokester, or a great man. He leaves that nation with an unmistakably altered following, most of whom are inclined to soften the edges of their criticism and to swell the songs of their praise. For whatever else may have been established by Mr. Shaw's tour, the circumstance of his mortality seems now indisputable, and, in his own words...
...English and it has well deserved to do so. Its positive merits are strong -- and its negative merits are not to be disregarded. For any man who wants to study English literature without having to know at what o'clock the illegible of a third-rate eighteenth century dramatist was born, or who wants to study history without going through the well wastes of Government 1 and Economic A, the department of History and Literature is a gift from the Gods...
...Veracruz bearing in her stern cabin none less than the Commander-in-Chief of Britain's America & West Indies Station, Vice-Admiral the Hon. Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, C. B., D. S. 0., who is in addition the younger brother of Ireland's mystic dramatist Lord Dunsany...
...Admiral's widowed mother, to increase the inheritance legally adopted the names of every visible relative in 1905. Dramatist Dunsany inherited the title and Irish properties, leaving the residuary estate and nomenclature to Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, who in 1916 adopted his mother's last three names to inherit the inherited estates...