Word: dramatist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whatever one may think of Mr. Channing Pollock as an artist and dramatist, one must admit that he is a very clever speaker. Yesterday, when he addressed members of the Cambridge School of Drama, he succeeded in thoroughly charming his listeners. With one sweep of his sharp eyes, he sized up his audience, judged it skeptical and slightly unsympathetic, so immediately proceeded to disarm all by frankly admitting what some have termed faults, that is, his propensities toward sentimentalism and moralizing...
...from Wisconsin to Washington sped her devoted sons Senator Robert Marion and Governor Philip Fox La Follette. They arrived just in time to get a flickering smile of loving recognition from their mother before she slipped quietly away from them forever. Too late was her daughter Fola, wife of Dramatist George Middleton, hurrying east from Santa Monica. Of all the tributes evoked by the death of Widow La Follette none was more appreciated by her family than the one (not made public) from the outstanding Liberal of the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Justice Brandeis who signed himself "Uncle Louis...
...characters were not disposed to maintain their tour on such a great-man-&-great-lady basis. As is their custom, they cavorted and japed in the most public places. Only at the Red Square in Moscow, where they gazed upon the mummy of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Nikolai Lenin), was Dramatist-Publicist Shaw as dignified as his impressive appearance. Over the corpse he commented: "A pure intellectual type. This is the true aristocracy." Other parts of the Shaw-Astor itinerary...
...that he was to be an artist. He lived successively in Barcelona, Madrid, finally Paris-always drawing. Paris became his spiritual as well as his physical home. Today it is as unfair to consider him simply a Spanish artist as it is to consider George Bernard Shaw an Irish dramatist...
Elected. Pierre Benoit, French novelist; to be a member of the French Academy (traditionally limited to 40 members); succeeding the late dramatist Georges de Porto-Riche...