Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marry the Man. Playwright Jean Archibald's comedy has a sexy headstart in its subject, companionate marriage, but it soon loses ground and does not come in a winner. Mollie Jeffries thinks that she and her Gregory will always enjoy a paradoxical combination of freedom and affection. But Gregory nobly yearns for the stabilizing responsibilities of true matrimony. Therefore he announces his forthcoming marriage to a fictitious woman. Mollie is shocked, furious, broken. But while the chimes are ringing for Gregory's marriage he appears in a top hat, gaily tells Mollie of his ruse and whisks...
...Come-On Man. In the last five minutes of this play's inaction, one supposed detective turned out to be a crook and two supposed crooks turned out to be detectives. The entire cast, however, remained journeyman actors with but little chance to be anything else. Playwright Herbert Ashton Jr. and his father were the pseudo-crooks...
...staff appointed last week by the Fort Myers, Fla., Women's Community Club to publish an issue of the Tropical News. She wrote editorials: extolled Adolph Simon Ochs (New York Times), flayed handshaking as too hard on President Hoover, attacked billboards. Robert Cedric Sherriff, London insurance broker, amateur playwright of super-successful Journey's End (TIME, April 1), announced last week he was writing a play about the antarctic death (1912) of Explorer Robert Falcon Scott...
...Rabindranath Tagore, Indian poet, playwright, mystic, last week abandoned his intended tour of the U. S., sailed for home from San Francisco. Reason: disgust with
...Czech Surgeon-Playwright Frantisek Langer is the last production of the eleventh Theatre Guild season. It is a success story in the mid-European idiom. Alik is the silent, dawdling son of a millionaire. All that he subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy...