Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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International. John Howard Lawson wrote what a lot of people consider the best play in the modern manner yet written by a U. S. playwright. It was Processional produced some seasons ago with none too conspicuous magnetism by the Theatre Guild. Since then those who were stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas...
Continuing in an enthusiastic vein on the subject of "The Play's the Thing", he characterized it as a novel departure in the field of modern comedy one in which the author, Ferene Molnar, has put himself into the play in his professional character of playwright. Binn portrays the playwright in the role of Sandor Turai...
Ferene Molnar apparently takes issue with Ford Madox Ford in the latter's dictum that "New York Is Not America." Back in that dear Budapest after a whirlwind visit to Broadway and environs the playwright says that there is but one wonder in the world and that is the city of New York...
...other section of the country besides the one which best appreciates his wares. For every dramatist there is but one wonder in the world and that wonder is the same as Molnar's. Who cares, theatrically speaking, about those wastes outside of the metropolis? And why should a visiting playwright penetrate further into America than is necessary for his business? If he is accepted by the chief Rialto he will be accepted by the hundred imitations...
From Lion Ludwig dowagers learned that "Today the great personalities of Europe are found only in science and technology.'' He concluded ably: "I have seen only three great men in Europe this year. One is Bernard Shaw, far greater as an educator than a playwright; another is Einstein, who changed the fundamental ideas of our entire world, and the third, perhaps the greatest of all, is President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who first dreamed his nation, then made it, and then governed...