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...capacity audience crowded Emerson D last night to hear John Mason Brown '23, dramatic critic of the New York "Evening Post" and lecturer at the Summer School, speak on Hendrik Ibsen, the revolutionary Nineteenth century dramatist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BROWN LECTURES ON IBSEN | 3/8/1940 | See Source »

...Widener Library. "I can't stop working," he explained. "I hope to live to complete the notes and editing on the entire list of plays--and I see no reason why I shouldn't." He is an ardent student of Shakespeare and his formula for understanding the-dramatist is to "read him and find out what he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kittredge Celebrated Eightieth Birthday Quietly With Family | 2/29/1940 | See Source »

...Charles paints a suspiciously pretty picture of two old ladies in the tribe. Bernard: "Really, Charles, you, not I, should have been the dramatist of the family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...there a remedy? Often, Vag realized, the "green-eyed monster" had attacked him, once with disastrous results. He smiled as he recalled that tragic childhood romance. What could be done in the future? Suddenly Vag remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the subject. Something world famous, in fact; something probably never equalled in the realm of dramatic expression. Vag decided to hear Professor Theodore J. Spencer at 11 o'clock today in Harvard 5, on "Othello, Moor of Venice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/8/1939 | See Source »

...diplomat, dramatist (Amphytrion 38), novelist and profound student of national characteristics, Author Giraudoux came out of World War I a chevalier of the Legion of Honor. Typical Giraudoux observation of current interest to U. S. readers: "The Americans . . . always fight themselves. When they were English, they fought the English, as soon as they were Americans they fought each other. When their culture became sufficiently Germanic, they fought Germany. The first American who took a prisoner in 1917 was named Meyer. So was his prisoner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Fact & Fiction | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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