Word: knoblock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never knows whether her love was lewd or purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon. These ponderous problems are interpreted, well enough, by Frances Starr and Reginald Mason. There is a joke about the Nights of Columbus. The Mulberry Bush. Dramatist Edward Knoblock discusses divorce with some sagacity, some wit, and rare indelicacy. Gathered into one rowdy evening are a mutually cheerful man and the wife from whom he plans severance, his mistress and his fiancee. The quadrangle is finally solved in the wife's bedroom with plans for the divorce melting...
Speakeasy. The frantic urge to tell of horrors in drink dens of Manhattan has infected no less a dramatist than Edward Knoblock. Mr. Knoblock has to his credit such dramas as Milestones, with Arnold Bennett as coauthor, Kismet, Marie-Odile. Not so decidedly to his credit is this new play Speakeasy. He wrote it in collaboration with one George Rosener, sometimes an actor in musical shows. Together they evolved the tale of going, going, going, but not quite gone wrong young woman. The heroine's enemy is a wicked crook; her savior, a stainless Princeton youth who slays...
Once upon a time Edward Knoblock wrote Kismet. On Monday night his play, the Tornado, written in collaboration with Anthony Blake, received at the hands of the Repertory Players its first performances on any stage...
Kismet was Fate as interpreted to the playgoing public by Mr. Knoblock, and the Tornado is Fate staging a comeback a la Knoblock. But the famous playwright can't leave Fate alone. Determined as he may be when he first puts her on the stage, Mr. Knoblock soon finds that she has the inscrutable ways of Woman, and the public for whom this playwright slaves are not up to the hurdles of the inscrutable...
...Knoblock has written scores of plays, pieced dozens of puzzles, and his facility is only rivalled by his vacuity. There is a story current that a certain young lady counted the number of lines devoted to the introduction, the development, the exposition, the climax and the conclusion of a Saturday Evening Post story, and duplicated it with a different setting, slightly different characters, and a touch more of spice, submitted the resulting confection, and received a check immediately. Knoblock has found the same royal road to riches...