Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arthur Richman, Manhattan playwright, married Madeleine Marshall, U. S. actress, three years ago, in London after she had appeared in his play Ambush, Playwright Richman last month completed The Hungry Wife, last week inserted this public notice in Manhattan newspapers. A similar notice was inserted in London papers by Lord Ashley, heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury. His wife (Sylvia Hawkes) was also an actress...
Died. Avery Hopwood, 44, prolific playwright (The Bat, The Gold Diggers'); while bathing in the Mediterranean Sea near Juan-les-Pins, France. In 1920, four plays of Hopwood authorship or collaboration were shown in Manhattan...
Died. Leo Ditrichstein, 63, famed Hungarian-born actor (Trilby), playwright (The Great Lover) ; in Auersperg, Austria; of heart disease. Less than four years ago retired from the U. S. stage, sold his U. S. possessions, spoke loudly on the deplorable condition of the U. S. theatre, deplorable invasion of the cinema, and the deplorable tempo of U. S. life, then sailed for Europe forever...
Married. Zona Gale, 53, famed playwright (Miss Lulu Belt, 1920), novelist (Preface to a Life, 1926) and short story-writer (Yellow Gentians and Blue, 1927); to William L. Breese, 63, wealthy hose manufacturer; at Portage, Wis., her birthplace...
There are those who contend that Playwright O'Neill has more to say when he is concerned with intimate and human drama than when he is setting forth some tremendous generalization upon Life. The first audience at Lazarus Laughed was properly impressed with the repetitive and imposing spectacle which the Pasadena Players (amateur) made of their production. The play was given in the Pasadena Community Playhouse, a theatre endowed by local patrons for the highly able efforts of the Pasadena Players. The mechanics of the production were gigantic; there were vast numbers of actors, 400 costumes and 300 masks...