Word: marc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest modern American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
...Wolf Hopper dropped into the Cort theatre recently while a rehearsal of the all-children caste for a production of Merton of the Movies to raise funds for the Professional Children's School was in progress. " What are you doin' ? " asked Hopper of Marc Connolly, who adapted the novel for the stage, " Rehearsing your New York caste...
...longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity in the South Seas. Jeanne Eagels as the attractive, hard-boiled demimondaine. U. S. Marines, real rain, and the hot, moist breath of the tropics. SEVENTH HEAVEN...
Helen of Troy, N. T., by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connolly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies, and adapters of Merton of the Movies, has gone into rehearsal for its metropolitan production...
...League who refuses to visit Europe because her passport must bear the dreaded brand "Mrs. Heywood Broun." Ruth Hale is slim, dark, vivid, eager. She writes moving picture criticisms and book reviews. She has a cleverness very nearly as distinct as that of her versatile husband. George Kaufman and Marc Connolly, too, are usually here; and John Peter Toohy, press agent, author of a novel and of plays. Of such is "The Round Table." Otherwise at the Algonquin: The Rascoes, Hazel and Burton-Burton, a nervous, slender figure, vigorously collecting gossip for his column in the Sunday Tribune; Carl...