Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professional football will invade Boston next Monday night. Two elevens made up of former college players and coached by E. B. Dooley, last year Dartmouth's All-American quarterback, will battle each evening. Their plays will be carried out according to the orders of Grantland Rice, football expert and playwright, and their gridiron will be the stage of the Hollis Street Theatre...
...irresistible comedienne on our stage than Ina Claire, theatre-goers have not seen her. Never did she play better. There are few leading actors so convincingly attractive as Mr. Young and Mr. Matthews. Of its type this entertainment has not been equaled this season, nor indeed since the same playwright's Aren't We All so agreeably occupied the time of Cyril Maude...
...that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young playwright. She insinuates in no uncertain terms that the play is a steal...
...play had heights which were only surpassed by its deeps. Alan Mowbray as the young physician made love to Miss Standing, who played the young lady playwright with his left hand while he solved the riddle with his right. He nearly fell asleep along with us but his recoveries out of a sound sleep were nothing short of marvelous. May Ediss was well cast as the mother of the wronged young man and soothed the audience with her well-bred voice. She was in great contrast to the girl's mother, played by Elspeth Dudgeon. Miss Dudgeon was the only...
Seven Keys to Baldpate. When Mr. Cohan wrote this play it was agreed to be one of the most interesting and effective technical experiments produced by a native playwright. Also it was funny. The latitude of the movies obscures somewhat the ingenious fitting of the pieces. The director and Douglas MacLean have retained the brisk and novel humor...