Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bride of the Lamb. Every so often and ever since Ruin the playwrights have been putting a tentative foot on the thin ice above the deep affinity between sex and religion. Now a playwright, William J. Hurlbut, has stepped full on it and there are some who say that it will break and he will be found thrashing around with the police. Some of these say that he has written a great play and some that it is cheapened by the obviously sensational. All were bound by its spell...
Easter is a confused parable about a family whose father was in jail because of the unfortunate results of dipsomania. The same strain of insanity runs in the daughter's blood. In her semi-bemused conversation, the playwright has set the sharpest jewels of his philosophy. Some of the jewels did not twinkle very clearly. Easter is symbolic, Continental, difficult, and not particularly stimulating to the casual U. S. mind. Which may prove to certain erudites that it is a good play...
Danger. An amendment to the Constitution to make the U. S. a legally Christian country and to authorize punitive and discriminating legislation against people of other religious faiths was penned by William Jennings Bryan before he died, according to his old friend, Playwright Augustus Thomas.* "I saw the actual wording of the amendment," said Playwright Thomas, "and gave it as my opinion that such an amendment, if passed by Congress, might secure sufficient support from Fundamentalist states, south and west, to become ratified...
Heartbreak House in Shavian language means Europe-Before-The-War, as the playwright revealed in his preface. But most of the playgoers had no preface to guide them and laugh as hard as they would they couldn't make heads or tails of it all. Oh, it was very funny, and quite too cynical for words, but somehow just what it meant the audience couldn't decide. They stood around in wavering little circles in the lobby between the first and second acts and tugged at friends' coat-tails and squeaked "What do you think this is all about...
...Virgin. The strange unplumbed affinity between religious exaltation and sex, which was the motif of Rain, has tempted another playwright. He is Arthur Corning White, who teaches English at Dartmouth, and his play has been trimmed and tuned to the theatre by Louis Bennison, an actor. Between them they have turned out a somewhat self-consciously sensational entertainment which has spots of fiery brilliance...