Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband is a playwright, the wife an actress, and so far their marrriage has begotten only temperament. O'Neill shows them snarling and yapping, making quarrels their chief recreation. They bicker about nothing, repetitiously, inconclusively, murderously, amorously. For they actually wrangle because they love each other too much to leave each other alone...
Inasmuch as a playwright and an actress are not features of every home, no universal implication can be drawn from O'Neill's forceful yoking of two creatures so wildly attuned and so woefully apart. Despite the everyday naturalness of his domestic shambles, he makes out no general case for marriage as a vise and a vice. Plentifully in evidence is his instinctive plumbing of the human heart, and his flair for real talk in copious draughts. But the searchlight of his realism throws up figures that are drab instead of highly colored. Jacob Ben Ami rather luxuriates...
...Playwright Zangwill tries almost forcibly to be fair. He admits the young must indulge their craving for self-expression, while the old should give more pats on the head and fewer raps on the knuckle. But it is obvious that he really bows before Kipling's God of Things as They Are. It is Zangwill determined to grow old gracefully. He is intent on raising the dust by thumping sofa cushions which have already had the stuffing knocked out of them by numerous writers. His stodgy play is only occasionally relieved with flashes of wit, and sudden fits...
These are but a few of the mystified queries which kept the telephone at the Dramatic Club offices busy all day yesterday as the result of a misstatement made in yesterday morning's CRIMSON to the effect that Karl Kapek, famous Bohemian playwright, would read his play "The Makropulos Affair" at Paine Hall in the Music Building this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Augustus Thomas, playwright, "theatre Tsar," who once served as a page boy in the U. S. House of Representatives, injected his personality into politics last week by saying...