Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MARRIAGE without obstacles isn't tempting . . ." wrote the playwright. And now marriage with all its obstacles is even less tempting. Count Keyserling, in his symposium, The Book of Marriage, raises no new cry, stampedes no staid world, but comes instead to a world in chaos, and to a subject of the greatest controversial significance, bringing with him the judgment of "twenty four leaders of contemporary thought...
...evening belongs to the Guitrys, man and wife, playwright and chanteuse. The others in the cast are all very well, but the audience has eyes for no one else so long as either member of this talented family is on the stage...
With this pinch of salt Playwright Guitry has seasoned his most recent play, and to the Queen's taste. The comedy of manners, which surrounds it, mounted in the style of the seventies of the eighteenth century, with all the delightfully feminine thrills and furbelows which attended...
...songs from the playwright's pen have the flavor of the whole piece, with an elusive note in tune and word which adds to the play's sparkle. But it is those songs, which fall to the lot of Mile. Printemps which give the most pleasure, and which on Monday night brought her back time and again for the applause of an audience which did not need to recall its French in order to be appreciative. Add to these songs the dance, which shows her substituting for the gentleman from the ballet, impudently demonstrating how she, or rather he Mozart...
...reign of good Queen Victoria. To the zip-gobbling audiences of this day, the play offers mellow humor and pathos-qualities whose commercial values are doubtful. To the student of the theatre, to the lover of stage personalities, it is irresistable. Dramatist Pinero in Trelawny has created a young playwright-one whose theories and struggles against the theatrical traditions of the time were those of Sir Arthur himself. Young Tom Wrench abhors the long, pompous speeches; his characters speak like human beings. Scornfully, the old actors reject his manuscript: "Why, sir, there isn't a speech in it . . . nothing...