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...News won't do as the sole commodity for any paper, because Life, said to be a great dramatist, is a most indifferent journalist. You cannot leave the contents of any daily publication to Fate, because so very often Fate falls down badly and comes to the office empty handed. There are days, of course, when Life turns out prodigious copy. Quakes sometimes come on the very afternoon that Kings are dying. Cyclones have attempted to crowd Babe Ruth out of his fair share of space by picking the very day on which he made two home runs...
...production, by which he wishes to explain the written drama as the direct outcome of the conditions in the contemporary theatre--unquestionably the most sensible means of approaching the study, since plays and their productions are inseparable. Such a composite picture, dealing with every aspect of the problem facing dramatist and producer--the monoply system, the democratization of art, the vastness of the playhouses, the endless litigation, financial failures, the rift between artist and public, the custom of "damning the play," the growing attitude of the T. B. M. coincident with the rise of industrialism, the conservatism...
...pride of Obersalzbrunners in dramatist Hauptmann was reawakened when he was asked to become a charter member of the new department of literature in the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts?an honor of primatical magnitude...
That the news of the safe arrival of the Norge preempted more, than three quarters of the New York Times front page is a superb tribute to Roald Amundsen, dramatist. To startle a standard, conservative journal into heaving headlines is indeed a feat as remarkable as aerial exploration of the Arctic...
...even the irrepressible columnist, Heywood Broun, admits that dramatist Kelly deserved reward for past performances, if not for his prize-winning play "Craig's Wife...