Word: dramatist
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Interwoven in this uneven melodrama is the suggestion, to be expected, of men being the sport of hidden strings of fate and passion. But sometimes, as in the actual marionette show put upon the stage, the strings are made too evident by the dramatist. Effects of huge shadows and splashes of vivid color sometimes divert attention from the fact that the characters themselves are pulled about in jerks. Miriam Hopkins, erstwhile of musical comedy, and Fredric March as the lover have several plangent scenes together, and C. Henry Gordon pitches about energetically as the husband. But the trail...
...Smith '25, president of the Circulo, will discuss the life and comedies of the Spanish dramatist, Lope de Rueda...
...dramatist and a fighter, and there is no better proof of his talents Ithan his speech, which immediately forced into the national arena the question of efficiency. Apparently he desired at once to assume, in the public eye, the role of antagonist to the Senate...
...Hersey also brought out the fact that Bostonians were accused of pseudo-culture long before the day of Hampden and Clive; he quoted the memoirs of an 1850 dramatist who bewailed the ill fortune of Shakespeare, Sheridan, and the like, when any cheap production with glitter, blare, and tinsel packed the house...
...criticized adversely for extravagance, for maintaining a larger army than conditions warrant, for costly foreign embassies. But more striking than this are comments from Mrs. Casement, widow of the notorious Roger Casement, executed during the war for treason, from St. John Ervine, famed Irish novelist and dramatist, from John Dillon, onetime leader of the Home Rule Party...