Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the work in dramatic instruction at Harvard, inaugurated 30 years ago by Professor George P. Baker, who has recently accepted a professorship at Yale, should be continued, was the opinion expressed by Owen Wister '80, well-known playwright and novelist, in a written report of the Committee on English, which was submitted to the Board of Overseers at their January meeting, the reports of which have just been published...
Divorced. Pauline Frederick, famed cinema vampire, from one C. A. Rutherford, Seattle physician; in Los Angeles. She charged desertion. This is her third divorce, the other two being from Frank M. Andrews (Manhattan architect) and Willard Mack (actor and playwright...
...protest. For weeks past it has been to me a source of extreme haemeotropiros to peruse the languid quaintness of your dramatic reviews, from which I invariably recover (than my lucky stars!) with a realization that the unfortunate play, or playwright, or manager, or both, have been surreptitiously pen-handled by the critic. But I forgive him--now, for I have discovered that only innocence or naivete has produced the effect of an apparently learned discussion of so learned a topic as the stock performance of a play only recently produced on Broadway by much superior talent, which play, after...
...found the emotions anything but secret, and led on the consuming passion with relish. The audience devoured the Cobra's every move; it tolerated the other players. After her cremation, the other players. After her cremation, the situation became powerful enough to keep everything on the run, including the playwright. He put up a game fight, however, until the situation got the better of him at the end of the last act; he shuddered, uttered a desperate anticlimax, and succumbed. The audience paid no attention to his fiasco, but was satisfied with the thrills that has gone before; well-schooled...
...later acts these two appear as better actors, for the playwright gives them four years in which to outgrow the advantages of a Yale education. Miss Anderson shines equally brilliantly as girl and woman, in fact, the more so for having to do both; lately her part has been taken by Miss Bunyea. Miss Moores provides the happy ending in the approved fashion, while Miss DeMe and Mr. Horton perform their superfluities satisfactorily...