Word: plays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When John William Davis, technical present-day head of the Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished...
...seems strange to me that ... I should suddenly become one of the idols of the English public merely by writing one short play. Congratulations are pouring in upon me now, but they find me only a very weak old man, barely able to stand...
...Vale; and his more recent elusively rich and moving Heloise and Abelard (1921). The trouble with these works is, however, that they appeal merely to a small group, select and perhaps elect. Not until last week did George Moore know the crude, earthy, tangible joy of having written a play which London proceeded to applaud, not merely from the lordly stalls but from the common, vociferating gallery...
...play is The Making of an Immortal. Edward of Wales attended its premiere last week. He seemed diverted by a drama which unfolds upon the stage the theory that that erudite Elizabethan, Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans), was the real author of plays now attributed to William Shakespeare. The stalls were atwitter between the acts, as nice points of Baconiana and Shakespeariana were weighed. But while the curtain was up the gallery roared approval of a mannish, imperious Queen Elizabeth and of a Will Shakespeare who seemed but a lout of an actor and most timid and unwilling...
...morning following the premiere almost every dramatic critic in London said nice things about aged George Moore's play, called it "brilliant," "shrewdly humorous," "enriched with prose of unusual beauty...