Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is to say that wit and charm were the playwright's intent. Actually, he did not charge his manuscript with an overabundance of either. The performances of Beatrice Hendricks and Curtis Cooksey were fairly helpful...
Married. John Chipman Farrar, editor of The Bookman; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, crossword puzzle authoress; in Manhattan. Best man: Charles Phelps Taft 2nd. Ushers: S. V. Benet (poet-novelist); Philip Barry (playwright); F. T. Davison (wealthy politician); Artemus L. Gates (Yale football captain, World War hero); Hamilton Hadley (son of Yale University's President Emeritus); Robert A. Lovett (son of "Judge" Lovett, famed railway magnate...
That is the point of the whole thing. Any playwright who must get his laughs from a revolver explosion, a smear of lipstick on the temple, and a fall on a couch that looks like a juggler getting ready to spin a barrel on his feet is no safe playmate for even the best stockcompany. It is to be supposed that at least two happy couples were united before the play closed: thereof the chronicler telleth not. In fact, he is thinking of writing a book called "Third Acts, by one who has never been there...
Wilde is a playwright exceedingly sensitive to production. The Actors' Theatre has done amazingly well by him this time and the results are most diverting. Lucille Watson, Patricia Collinge, Reginald Owen, Vernon Steele and Dudley Digges were shrewd selections for the various delicately incisive roles. Strangely enough even the epigrams seem to have survived sturdily-"The truth is rarely pure and never simple"-"Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others"-"Whenever people talk to me about the weather I always feel quite certain they mean something else."-"Ignorance is like a delicate exotic...
...Playwright Munro in the news last week...