Word: howards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howard, son of Sir Esme Howard, present British Ambassador to the United States, has been awarded one of the three Henry P. Davison scholarships given each year to Cambridge University students, and has been assigned to Harvard for his excuse of study starting next fall...
...English diplomat is at present enrolled in Trinity College of Cambridge. It was not made known what field of study Howard will engage in while at the University, although he will probably continue his work in history and literature which has occupied his efforts at the British institution. The remaining two Cambridge students who were awarded scholarships by the committee, are Arthur MacDonald of St. Johns College, and C. D. G. Nicholson of Jesus College. The former will be enrolled in Yale, while Nicholson will take up his studies at Princeton, in the field of architecture...
FOUR episodes in the rise of a New Yorker constitute this new and ingenious play--an experiment in dramatic biography. Sidney Howard like Eugene O'Neill ever concerns himself with exploiting unguessed possibilities of the drama, and his latest production, "Lucky Sam McCarver', rivals if not surpasses O'Neill's "The Great God Brown". As proteges of Professor Baker, both playwrights have done not a little to enhance his established reputation, and even the most casual acquaintance with their work reveals the fact that they are perpetuating the best traditions of the deceased 47 Workshop. Despite divergent individualities, they both...
...Byron), on the other. Indeed, these reminders serve but to convince him more strongly that in the main classifications of artistic form there is nothing new under the sun. Yet Shaw and Drinkwater are not the innovators of dramatic biography and they have discovered but one of its types. Howard has evolved another. Unlike his English contemporaries, he has not etched the significant characteristics of well known demagogues, but created an etching by characterizing unremarked specimens of the genus Americana...
...From this point of view, "Lucky Sam McCarver" is especially significant. On the strength of his achievement, its author may well win another Pulitzer Prize while it is certain if there were a distinguished prize for the best dramatic preface of the year, its award would go to Mr. Howard without further deliberation