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Retired. William Gillette, 74, oldtime U. S. actor (The Admirable Crichton, Dear Brutus, Diplomacy), dramatist (Held by the Enemy, Too Much Johnson, Settled Out of Court, Sherlock Holmes), member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters; from the stage; after a final performance in Pittsburgh of his revival of Sherlock Holmes (TIME...
Died. Charles Sydney Gilpin, 52, Negro, creator of the title role in Dramatist Eugene O'Neill's Emperor Jones, playwright (Her Other Husband; Listen, Dearie); after a year's nervous breakdown partially due to discouragement; near Trenton...
...Europe, he came to the U. S., found New York too much for him; learned what it was to be a "poor nigger," reverted to type, because he did not know anything else to do. The Author. Orio Vergani is 31 years old, is an Italian. Onetime manager of Dramatist Luigo Pirandello's theatre in Rome, he is the author of six books, is a journalist on Milan's Corriere delta Sera, likes boxing, traveling, the cinema. In 1922 he went to Paris to see the championship bout between Frenchman Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki, onetime Senegalese phenomenon...
...jocund luncheon afterward, the Rt. Rev. Charles Lisle Carr, Bishop of Coventry cried: "To Shakespeare's immortal memory!" and upended his glass. Cried Dramatist St. John Greer Ervine: "To the drama!" Sparkling-eyed Actress Violet Vanbrugh responded to this toast. Later Mr. Ervine, who spent the winter of 1928-29 in Manhattan taking plays to pieces as Guest Critic of the New York World, spoke with modest and mellow good humor: "Anybody can take Shakespeare's plays to pieces," said he, "but only Shakespeare could put them together. . . . There is no such thing as a flawless play. Shakespeare...
Drunken Priests. "Have you ever read anything of Claudel's?" Secretary Martet writes that he asked Clémenceau, referring of course to France's present Ambassador at Washington, M. Paul Claudel, poet and dramatist...