Word: one-act
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...which thudded through The Emperor Jones (1920) sounded a new pulse on the U. S. stage. With Beyond the Horizon (1919), Anna Christie (1921) and Strange Interlude (1929) he has thrice won the Pulitzer Prize. His published works number 28. If you would like a copy of Thirst & Other One-Act Plays, his first printed volume, it will cost...
...Father lost nothing by the fact that it was preceded by Sir James Mathew Barrie's one-act War morsel, Barbara's Wedding...
...writing or is burdened with no definite number of pages of a textbook to read. He attends two very informal lectures a week, at which Mr. Hersey discusses some "genre", the short story, poetry, one act plays, the essay, etc., not as short stories, poems, one-act plays, or essays but rather the mechanics of the writing of such "genres". Students who have an urge to write or are interested in writing will find in Mr. Hersey's course, not the opportunity for becoming writers, but rather the opportunity for doing much writing under excellent criticism and advice...
...time for the stage. He was busy being a master violinist, busy at symphonic conducting, busy at composing for violin or orchestra. But last week he would have given a great deal to have gone back to Liége for the premiére of a one-act opera called Peter the Miner. He had written it himself but he was too sick to travel from Brussels to see it played. Seventy-two, diabetic, one leg amputated, he had to listen to his opera over the radio. One of his ablest violin pupils represented him at the performance...
These two little one-act plays are the sort of things Professor George Pierce Baker's solemn young men at Harvard were trying to write 15 and more years ago. They seem easy to write, but not so in fact. They are quite civilized, the latest offerings in the U. S. of urbane Hungarian Ferenc Molnar...