Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before You're 25. "If a man isn't a socialist sometime before he's 25," says Playwright Kenyon Nicholson, "he has no heart. If he is a socialist after he's 25 he has no head." In this Nicholson play, Clement Corbin, son of a wealthy Chicagoan, has a heart, a radical magazine called The Torch, a baby born en route through Indiana, the baby's mother, no marriage certificate. He is a determined socialist. How his family and would-be wife combine to make him marry and drop The Torch for a furniture...
...story of a girl who leaves a beaten playwright to cast her lot with a successful author. That is all; yet in its four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...
...Disraeli" is an historical costume drama of the eighteenth century, and, according to the playwright's preface, it "attempts to show a picture of the days in which Disraeli lived, and some of the racial, social, and political prejudices he fought against and conquered." Costumes are being obtained by the Societies from the Repertory Theatre of Boston, which are actually of the period of 1875, at which time the play...
John Drinkwater, English poet-playwright (Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln), arrived in the U. S. last week to see the opening of his latest play and first comedy, Bird in Hand, on Broadway (see p. 16). Waylaid by ship-news reporters, Author Drinkwater said: 1) That he would fight Prohibition if it threatened England; 2) That the U. S. has no recent or contemporary figure dramatically as large as Lee or Lincoln, although "Woodrow Wilson might make a good play;" 3) That talking cinema shows are not worth talking about...
Whopper-publishers Simon & Schuster and Whopperess Lowell, replied cheerfully that she had used ''artistic selectivity." Husband Thompson Buchanan, a journalist-playwright with Hollywood affiliations, admitted that it was true that his wife had lived on the Minnie A. Caine only a short time, but protested that she had lived on many another ship and that in her book she had merged all the real ships into one literary entity, thus demonstrating her good judgment...