Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued for Divorce. Daisy Kennedy, a violinist, by her husband, Benno Moiseiwitsch, the pianist. Moiseiwitsch named as co-respondent John Drinkwater, famed playwright...
...wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer...
...doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus the ne'er-do-well of the play, discontented with his frigidly austere environment, is apotheosized in the films into a pretty good boy, much put upon for mocking local narrowness. The shiftless youth who was saved...
Although there is a large measure of truth in his remarks, this critic, who happens to be Basil MacDonald Hastings, the playwright, may possibly be a trifle severe. Certainly, if what he says is so, it is fortunate for the average American's sense or national pride that he has confined his slings and arrows to his own country. Deterred, no doubt, by a press or other material, he has so far refrained from even mentioning the grim realists of the American school, who have made their happy hunting ground the fancied dullness of the Middle West...
...killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund to her son to make restitution. Playwright, Abby Merchant, seems optimistic about the young man's reformation, in spite of having moulded his character herself. The audience is pessimistic...