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Speaking in the Poetry Room of Widener Library tomorrow afternoon, Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist, will give the first Morris Gray Poetry Talk of the year. Mr. O'Casey will talk on "The Old Drama...
Well-Known Dramatist...
...recently gave a more virtuous character to the heroine of his "Mary of Scotland" than history allows, so has Elizabeth Bergnor's Catherine been blessed with an unbelievable holiness of purpose, that is inconsistent with even her eighteenth-century enlightened despotism. There is no point in begrudging the historical dramatist his literary liberties, for "Catherine the Great" is a thoroughly excellent work; but some day we should like to see a play that utilizes the full dramatic possibilities of authentic history, for certainly it cannot be doubted that real history, too, has quite as much innate drama as many...
...Green, just returned from Hollywood, where he supervised the filming of his play, "The House of Connolly" as the movie "Carolina", will deal informally with some of the problems of the dramatist who works with material unusual to the stage. He covers a wide range of subject matter, from his own special milieu, the folk-play of South Carolina to the flashier contributions of the silver screen...
Less solemn than O'Neill, more solid than Barry, Sidney Howard is a better theatrical craftsman than either. He shares with Shakespeare and most mediocre dramatists a willingness to take his material where he finds it. Many of his plays, mostly failures, have been translated adaptations (S. S. Tenacity, Casanova, Olympia). He wrote in collaboration with Edward Sheldon (Bewitched} and Charles MacArthur (Salvation}. Like Yellow Jack, Dodsworth, which opened last fortnight with equally enthusiastic reviews and made Sidney Howard the most successful dramatist of the season, was an adaptation. At work last week on a novel about...