Word: marc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Play: $1,000 to Marc Connelly The Green Pastures?reviewed in TIME, March...
...GREEN PASTURES-Marc Connelly's tremendously successful and moving adaptation of Roark Bradford's Negro biblicals...
Playwright Marc Connelly bought the dramatic rights to Ol' Man Adam: reviewers have almost universally given him sole credit for the play, but Author Bradford is collecting royalties...
Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
...have resembled a series of Negro nightclubs. Nor is the Lord God any less credible because he is imagined as working, like all important beings, in an office with a rolltop desk. From such humble visions, welling out of the fervid spirit of the black man. Playwright Marc Connelly, hitherto chiefly famed for his wit, has fashioned what is indubitably one of the most beautiful and affecting plays of recent years...