Word: dramatist
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Casanova was an imposing figure over six feet tall: "satiric, satanic, sensuous. An ugly man, swarthy, hawklike, with beady eyes . . . thin elongated nose." A charlatan, cardsharp, liar, forger, adulterer, seducer, jailbird, he was still a "student of humanities . . . connoisseur of the arts and sciences, philosopher, dramatist and poet." A worldly man, with few illusions, Casanova had some profound convictions. "It was one of his staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which...
...impressed by the refinement of American home life. I was particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering what I saw with my own eyes," boomed Chief Justice Kennedy, "I can only describe Robinson's play as a lampoon...
Last week was memorable for Dramatist Sherriff. The evening following the King's visit to his play, the manuscript of Journey's End was put up at auction at the tenth Anniversary Dinner of the League of Nations Union, brought $7,500, highest price ever paid for the manuscript of a living author's first play...
...appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards, and did not take up quieter study until, wounded, aged 24, he turned philosophic disciple of Descartes' foe-Libertin Gassendi, who also taught great Dramatist Moliere. As a writer, however, Cyrano was definitely minor. Yet his Journey to the Moon, despite its preciousness, was an ably fantastic novel, compound of carica ture and philosophy, and the inventive "science" in it anticipated Swift, Voltaire, Verne. Even Moliere was not above pilfering Cyrano's best comedy...
...Novelist and dramatist like his father, Alexandre fils (1824-95) began to write when he found himself $10,000 in debt. Taunted throughout youth for his bastardy, his works contained preachments against adultery, seduction. He gained most fame from his plays (La Dame anx Camclias, Idces de Madame Aubray, La Femmc de Claude, L'Etrangcrc) in which such great actors as Sarah Bernhardt, Benoit Constant Coquelin and Jean Mounet-Sully appeared. In 1874 he was elected to the French Academy, a distinction which his father never achieved...