Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Emeritus left a higher regard and deeper affection among students than Bliss Perry. Fisherman, Editor, and Teacher, his kindly simplicity and charm are remembered long after English 41 fades into the dimly forgotten. Dr. Hauptmann, German dramatist and playwright, is equally qualified to speak in this field. As an historian, novelist, and philosopher of history, Goethe spanned past and present and still raises vital issues in the modern world. Societies of commemoration, lectures, and prizes could be, and have been, devoted to less worthy ends than that of keeping alive his work...
...stands with no frills or false vanities, no hyphens, or extravagant middle names to hide the humiliation of a simple Herbert, or modest Henry concealed in the first initial. Who was this man Jones? A study of the catalogue reveals that he is either a 19th or 20th century dramatist. Obviously he is a man of the people with a stout English heart, otherwise he would never have sought the oblivion inevitable to his name. Probably he was associated with the Irish movement. This, we must grant you, is purely intuitional on our part but faith has often succeeded where...
...accustomed is everybody to thinking of Pirandello as a dramatist that his publishers on the jacket of this book have inscribed: "This is a book of fiction." It is a twelve-story selection from a projected 24-volume skyscraper entitled Stories for the Year Round. Like the Thousand & One Nights, like mottoes on church calendars, there will be Pirandello tales for every day of the year, every mood, every occasion...
...recall the rather cloudy complications resolving themselves "on the heights" of the Scandinavian mountains, between a middleaged sculptor, his youthful disillusioned wife, and the Strange Lady, Irene, exmodel and "grande dame" whom the sculptor had thrown over long ago for the sake of his art. It is the old dramatist's contribution to the eternal dilemma of the love of woman versus the love of art. Having chosen the latter and abandoned Irene, the sculptor discovers that, in killing his love, he has also killed his art. None the less these disastrous lovers are in the end reunited...
Died. Arthur Schnitzler, 69, Viennese novelist, poet and dramatist (Casanova's Homecoming, Professor Bernhardi, Fraülein Else, Rhapsody, etc.); of a stroke, while re-writing a play; in Vienna. In a codicil to his will he directed that his funeral be "of the very last" (pauper's) class, that the money thus saved be distributed among hospitals, that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of death...