Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parker '89, dramatic editor of the Transcript, will not attend the meeting of the Playwright's Guild until next week. He had planned to come tonight, but at the last minute was forced to cancel the engagement. Consequently there will be no meting tonight...
...arrangement with Donald S. Friede, vice president of Boni & Liveright, publishers, he has come to his native land to give a concert in Manhattan on April 10. With him comes his wife, niece of Austrian Playwright Arthur Schnitzler. He is accompanied also by an amazing record. Every concert of his given in Europe has been crowded. For three years people have been turned away for lack of room in the halls whence his queer sounds emanated...
...Marquis, colyumist-playwright (Old Soak): "Upon reading in Heywood Broun's column a letter, signed 'Don,' which told how many rejection slips the writer had received from editors, I wrote Heywood Broun a letter: -. . . I don't want anybody in the trade to think it is I who have had all these rejections, as it might hurt business. I have been in the writing business 25 years, and have sold every manuscript I ever produced...
...Loud Speaker, was written by John Howard Lawson, author of Processional (TIME, Jan. 26, 1925). As expected, it is staged against a "constructivist" background and presents the subjective state of the principal characters as well as their objective actions. The virtue of such staging is that, by affording the playwright several planes of action on one stage, it allows greater flexibility than is permitted by the rigid three-walled limitations of ordinary theatre. Thus, in Loud Speaker, the candidate for governor of the State may be discovered mulling over his radio speech in one corner of the stage, while...
...Manhattan to spend her $6,000 for a furtive smack of city life. The exploiter of women, duped by her reckless display, rushes into matrimony only to find he has caught a liability instead of an asset. And here is the end of the second act, with the playwright-actor of his own U. S. comedy still unworthy in the sight of the audience. How to reveal a heart of gold in the bad man? A powder mill explodes. Heroic qualities erupt. With nobility thus suddenly emergent, the ending triumphs happily for all, including the audience...