Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Don Marquis, 48, famed Manhattan columnist, amiable novelist-poet-playwright; to Mrs. Marjorie Vonnegut, actress. His first wife, the former Reina Melcher, died two years...
Miss Winwood plays a widow, and the brothers two young males in love with her. Ralph Morgan is humble, inefficient and attractive, constructed by the playwright to appeal to the mother instinct of the lady. Frank Morgan is the conquering sort. You will have to see for yourself who wins. No doubt you will be entertained in the process. But if taking the children, remember it is French...
...Darmstadt, a playwright, one Alfred Doeblin, presented a piece called Lusitania which showed the ship torpedoed, sinking, the passengers cursing, the adventures of the hero and heroine at the bottom of the sea. Nationalists cat-called, booed, stamped with their feet...
...Playing in a college part is the next best thing to being a student again," commented the youthful playwright and actor. "Critics have become tired of college plays, and are distinctly hostile to each new one. This is due of course to the fact that many of them have been written by men who never attended college at all or so long ago as to have fallen completely out of touch with the situation...
...interests of fair play, we, the undersigned, feel called upon to rise in defence of the voiceless middle classes. The middle classes have-never done anything to the playwright. On the contrary they have been very nice about buying tickets and even sitting through entire productions. We wish Miss Nichols and her pals would lay off Apple Sauces, Abies Irish Roses, and White Collarses and give us more dress suit dramas. We favor uplift. Yah! "Y'rs. "GEORGE. "HENRY. "HERM...