Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...villains. The content of these wells materializes as salt water. There is another act in which the properties are tendered again unto the villains for $190,000. Suspense is presumably maintained by the fickle character of these gushers as they become good, bad, and indifferent according to the playwright's exigencies...
Zona Gale, novelist, poet, playwright, always comes to my mind when a discussion of pacificism arises, because the accomplishment of World Peace with her is so impassioned a crusade. She is the sort of person who does not eat meat or wear furs because she believes it is wrong to kill animals for the luxury of mankind. I should like to have her meet Prof. Grindell-Matthews, famed inventor of the death-ray (TIME, Apr. 21, SCIENCE) as I met him the other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have...
...junior partner in politics. Philip is carrying on in his father's shoes as a lawyer. Fola, after an apprenticeship in the woman suffrage movement, went on the stage, played ingenue parts with Ada Rehan, played with Leo Ditrichstein, and then suddenly left the stage to marry playwright George Middleton. The youngest, Mary, studied...
...France (French)?Walter Damrosch, Conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra; Mme. Olga Petrova, actress-playwright; Owen Davis, dramatist; Edna Ferber, novelist; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, foreign affairs writer; Seymour Cromwell, onetime President of the New York Stock Exchange; two Newfoundland fishermen picked...
...Adriatic (White Star) ? Arthur Hornblow, playwright, dramatic critic; five European Managers of the Remington Typewriter Co.; one Johann Romitch, Austrian stowaway, who hid on the Adriatic leaving Manhattan three weeks ago, was sent back on the boat by British Alien Officers, cannot be landed in the U. S., "may have to be carried back and forth from Manhattan to Liverpool for years...