Word: dramatist
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...thinker of his day, and it is no fault of his that today his very name is synonymous with all that is black and treacherous. He was not a wicked man, unless patriotism is a sin. He was not a barbarian, but rather an historian, an ambassador and a dramatist. Indeed there were few cultural past-times in which he was not adept...
Thirty-five years ago German Composer Richard Strauss and his librettist, Dramatist Hugo von Hofmannsthal, went back to Greek drama for a subject. The result, Elektra, is the most hair-raising of modern operas...
...Writers' Project office in every city of 10,000, at least one writer or field worker in each of the U. S.'s 3,000 counties. State directors included 16 newspapermen and women, seven novelists, nine college professors and instructors, three historians, a poet, a bookseller, a dramatist...
...greatest Shakespeare actors of all times due to his work in this play, it is very interesting to note the accounts connected with the work of Sir Frank Benson, who gave the play in London in 1901. Accompanying the pictures and play bills of this dramatist is an article by a present day London critic, James Agate. Agate points out that the acting of Benson in "Richard II" was six times better than that of Evans. He gives us to understand that the current matinee favorite develops only a one-sided picture of Richard while Benson brought out the full...
Hume Cronyn received a hearty welcome from the first-nighters for the good work he has already done in Boston, and his performance belied no one's expectations. Cast as the hoosier dramatist, he is triumphantly ludicrous throughout. He confides, grins and goes into raptures just as country boys, according to dramatic convention, always do. None of the actors uses any restraint, but in a farce of this sort the heavier the lines are drawn, the better...