Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Caillaux, jaunty debt negotiator, landed at Havre, he twirled his cane in airy greeting to noted Poet-Playwright Maurice Rostand, who was waiting on the pier. Pressed for a statement, he declared: "We parted from the American delegates on the most cordial and sympathetic terms. . . . We shall resume our negotiations in good time." Implored to say something serious he took refuge in the ultimate cliché: "All I can say is that American women are charming...
There is something about poverty, at least about poverty as one sees it on the stage, which intensifies personality, throwing into sharp relief often dangerously year to exaggerating each peculiarity of character. This, of course, is meat and drink to the playwright. In "Seventh Heaven", Austin Strong took a handful of such individuals and into the story of their lives injected humor, tradedy, more than a little pathos, a bit of melodrama, and out of it all produced an immensely effective comedy...
...Vortex?In a conspicuously eventful week this play from England was easily the sovereign event. As a corollary of this, Noel Coward, playwright and actor, is the week's first personality. Mr. Coward is only 25. He will have, before the season shuts up for the summer, five produced plays in town?Still Life (called Hay Fever in London), Easy Virtue, Fallen Angels, The Vortex and most of Chariot's Revue. In the latter will be sung his famous lyric, "We Must All Be Very Kind to Aunty Jessie...
...playwright is, of course, occupied tearing the trappings from war. He has no sympathy for the tinsel tongue of trumpets nor the romantic tread of heroes. He knows that wounds hurt and that food along the fighting line is not always perfectly prepared. Therefore he spins a love story, puts part of it in uniform, and stands to one side nipping at it with little whips of laughter...
Died. Lady Amy Elizabeth Parker, wife of the famed statesman-novelist-playwright Sir Gilbert Parker; at the Harbor Sanitarium (New York City), after an illness of a year...