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...World. It is a far cry from 14th Street to Congreve. Yet just a little below that tawdry thoroughfare, buried in the back of Greenwich Village, is the tiny Cherry Lane Playhouse where Congreve has come back to life. The gentleman under discussion is an English dramatist of the 17th Century. He was considered the Bernard Shaw of his time. His plays are witty, caustic causeries of a decadent society. The Way of the World is often thought his best...
...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
...Press, ever watchful for the dramatic, for the pathetic, for the emotional, failed signally to capture the main dramatic theme of the Democratic Convention. It was a nominating Convention, and blindly the Press sought drama in the nomination, a hero in the nominee. Shakespeare, a greater dramatist, knew well that, in the tragedy of Caesar, Brutus was the moving character...
...President Roosevelt (United States)-George Middleton, dramatist, son-in-law of Robert M. LaFollette, senior U. S. Senator from Wisconsin; the Rt. Rev. James E. Freeman, P.E. Bishop of Washington...
Booth Tarkington, novelist and dramatist Litt.D...