Word: dramatist
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...Play's The Thing. Sandor Turai (Holbrook Blinn), like Playwright Ferenc Molnar himself, is an urbane gentleman, an excellent dramatist. Therefore, he handles a scandal as he would a theatrical situation; and in doing so, affords the audience a play within a play, an agreeable course in dramatic construction, a joyous evening in the theatre...
...created several new countries and one of them presented to the world a dramatist of recognized skill and undisputed worth. Karl Capek, Czechoslovakian dramatist, was introduced into America by his grim melodrama, "R. U. R." The public accepted it enthusiastically, but in a bewildered fashion. Then came "The Insect Comedy." And then, in the spring of 1924, the Harvard Dramatic Club presented Capek's latest play, "The Makropoulos Secret." This story of a woman who lived 300-years ran successfully in New York...
...thought nor one the cogency of which we feel to be overwhelming. Granting the dramatist's premises--a concession we are absolutely unwilling to make--the proof of his thesis is not completely convincing. And the treatment of his theme is not startlingly revolutionary. Aside from the obvious shadow of the "Beggar on Horseback", here is more than a suggestion of Barrie, and even a hint--God save the mark--of Maeterlinck. It is probably in the manner of its telling that the reason can be found for the strangely unsatisfying quality of the play. Undeniably it is written badly...
...proprietor of the Crown Inn at Oxford, where it was stated Shakspere always stopped when in that city. Du eto this, and the great dramatist's known or rumored admiration to the hostess, there sprang a scandalous story, attributing Davenant's paternity to Shakspere, a legend which Davenand himself encouraged, but which later criticism considers spurious...
...minds, Rama Krishna, then, is an eminently unsatisfactory religious leader. It is impossible to place him. He did not do anything great; he merely lived. He could barely read and write. Yet he numbered among his disciples the greatest social reformer in the India of the time, the greatest dramatist, and two or three of the greatest scholars...