Word: dramatists
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John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...
Favorite for election as official No. 1 Manhattan Deb this year in the Stork Club's coming nonsense was Oona O'Neill, daughter of brooding anchorite Dramatist Eugene O'Neill...
Died. Joseph Harry Benrimo, 67, actor-dramatist, co-author of The Yellow Jacket; in Manhattan. In the 1890s and early 1900s he played supporting roles with Modjeska, James O'Neill, Mrs. Leslie Carter, William Faversham...
...dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play...
Died. Charles A. Taylor, 78, blood-&-thunder dramatist of the '90s; in Glendale, Calif. Five of his melos were running at once on Broadway in 1892. Some of his plays: From Rags to Riches, Yosemite, The King of the Opium Ring, The Queen of White Slaves. Star of Rags was wide-eyed Laurette Taylor, then his wife...