Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker of it except through devoted championing by his actress-wife-and she seems to be merely parroting the author's own description of him. The young man, determining to conquer New York as a playwright, finds his plays promptly tossed back at him by commercial managers because they will not satisfy the gods of the box office. When he and his wife are on the verge of starvation, his mother-in-law harangues him into taking a lucrative position as editor of the more crimson type...
...Lunacharsky, who as Commissar of Education is also Supreme Lord of Theatreland in All the Russias, is a playwright. Last week his Hertzog (Duke) was produced at the People's Theatre in Moscow. That was not all. At the Little Theatre in Moscow Julius Caesar, a play by a lesser author named William Shakespeare, was also produced...
Referring to the great Bolshevik playwright, a critic contended that the author explains in the preface the intended inner revolutionary meanings of the play. But how wide is the gulf between Lunacharsky, as a prefacial explainer, and Lunacharsky as a dramatist. The play is based on sex and mysticism-religious mysticism at that...
...playwright knows that the most difficult part of play writing is to prevent the last act from falling flat. After traveling through the first two acts at a fast pace, it is hard to hold that pace until the end. Moreover, if the first two acts are well constructed, they should force a fairly inevitable conclusion. With a public like the American people, fed from its infancy on news, it is difficult to inspire interest in the inevitable...
...modern mystery vein of underworld plays, the only mystery being why the producers, after having bought the play for its previous standing and exploitation value, changed the name. The only explanation is that paradoxical titles are now in vogue on the screen, following the example of Playwright Shipman on the stage. Shipman might have written this cinema of the master thief's daughter who met the wealthy young man she was to rob, and turned from grand larceny to the grand passion. It is a machine-made picture, and Dorothy Dalton as Leah is only an effigy pulled around...