Word: mccobb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Second Man. Actresses honorably mentioned in the critics' ballots: Alice Brady (Sour Grapes, The Witch, Lady Alone, The Thief), Ruth Gordon (Saturday's Children), Rose McClendon (In Abraham's Bosom), Helen Menken (The Captive), Ethel Barrymore (The Constant Wife), Lynn Fontanne (Pygmalion...
...Good Hope, from the Dutch by Herman Heijermans; Two Plus Two Make Five, from the Danish by Gustav Weid; Invitation au Voyage, by Jean Jacques Bernard; a U. S. comedy not yet selected; Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, in which Clare Eames, formerly with the Theatre Guild (Ned McCobb's Daughter, Juarez and Maximilian) will alternate in the title role with Miss Le Gallienne...
...McCobb's Daughter?A Maine woman with a thieving husband and New England conscience. By the Guild Company...
...Brothers Karamazov. The first Guild play of the season, Juarez and Maximilian, failed. Then followed Ned McCobb's Daughter, Pygmalion, The Silver Cord, all successes. Now comes The Brothers Karamazov, in five long acts. It, too, seems destined for success...
...Silver Cord. It matters little to Playwright Sidney Howard that Ned McCobb's Daughter (TIME, Dec. 13) must give way on alternate weeks to The Silver Cord. He wrote them both, is one of the few who have had two plays produced by the Theatre Guild in the same season. His new opus is a pungent satire savagely directed against the popular sentimentality that breathes violet perfume on "mother love." A wit in the audience loudly announced after the curtain line "Now to go home and shoot mother...