Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After its blithe trip into musical entertainment, the Harvard Dramatic Club faces the necessity of immediately reiterating its policy of producing honest dramas heretofore unseen in America, and wisely choses a little known play by a well-known playwright for its fall production. Milne is safe; he raises no over-serious moral issues--although it is hoped that "Success" may drive a few additional nails into the coffin of American Babbitry...
While amateur boxers jabbed and danced at each other in preliminary bouts, watchers saw a member of the Wales entourage whisper to Playwright Shaw, saw him shake his head. More whispering. The Shavian beard waggled in violent negation. A rumor spread: "Shaw has refused to meet the Prince!" Dinner-jacketed ringsiders were furious. Boos and whistles echoed from the cheaper seats...
Young Sinners reveals Raymond Guion as a young libertine who regains his wind and his principles in the Adirondacks. Playwright Elmer Harris has made a bid for the prurient trade with a sex lecture more graphic than graceful...
...falls, his death will be announced as suicide; if he accomplishes the feat the whole matter will promptly be forgotten. Needless to say, Legrange treads the ledge safely, guilty only of shielding a woman's guilt. The harrowing quality of the ledge scene fails to mitigate Playwright Paul Osborn's long, tedious stretches. This idle melodrama is the second presentation of the New York Theatre Assembly which, sponsored by wealthy, smart Manhattanites, exists to present "amusing plays, in an intimate theatre, before a selected audience." A Ledge follows an exceedingly short-lived comedy called Lolly (TIME...
...frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull...