Word: dramatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of the House of Lords, had committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
Died. Bayard Veiller, 74, mystery dramatist (Within the Law, The Thirteenth Chair, The Trial of Mary Dugan) ; in Manhattan. Veiller left college for a newspaper job, wrote Within the Law in 1911, sold it outright for $3,750, saw it make $500,000 on the stage...
...Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, titian-topped Countess Renée Maeterlinck told how she got her husband, octogenarian Belgian dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck, to write the memoirs he will publish next autumn: "I trap him as a cat would a mouse. I ask him questions. I make him answer me. Then pretty soon he's writing a book...
...drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair-sized sorrows. Rich in accurate observation, and at moments funny, it is lean on drama and lacking in depth. No British Chekhov or even Odets, Coward has the wish to be a serious dramatist without the wherewithal. A born sophisticate, he is at ease on figure skates, but slightly awkward in the average man's shoes...
...TIME. After a great procession of military men and political leaders, it was a tremendous relief to see the Mephistophelean face of Orchestra Leader Beecham on that issue. Let's have more like it. The artists have been too neglected in this war time. . . . Let the poet, the dramatist, the composer and the painter join the parade across the front of TIME again...