Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with Augustus Thomas, famed playwright. *Who convene this week at Oakland, Calif...
...appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with all of these elements of interest, all of these facts of life, the editor, however, must exercise good taste. . . . just as the playwright or the novelist must. "And as a matter of plain fact, the editor generally exercises, and should exercise, and in fact must exercise, more discrimination than the novelist or the playwright, because he has a larger and more varied audience; and because his product goes into the home...
...phenomena which underlies getting-elected to public office. But it does show a great many things, which are more interesting than local practical politics. For the budding journalist it is the real capital of the United States. What New York is to the young financier or playwright, Washington is to the journalist. For it is here that he can see for himself, form his convictions which if he is ever fortunate enough to become editor of a newspaper or by sheer force of personality break into politics at home--a rare thing, by the way--he can use with telling...
Married. Edward E. Paramore Jr., onetime (1923) National Affairs Editor of TIME, now playwright (Set a Thief), author too of Yukon Jake, famed poem printed and reprinted by request by Vanity Fair; to Miss Edith Wellman; in Manhattan...
...hour later, Professor Murray will speak in Harvard 3 on the man who according to some is the greatest living playwright--George Bernard Shaw, Shaw himself is said to have his doubts whether he looks more like Satan or Christ; so has the Vagabond. Also the Vagabond is in no position to discuss the merit of his plays but at least he can say that he is thinking very seriously of going to hear about an interesting character...