Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story has the strong smell of dreary sordidness. Degeneration is the theme; a playright and his actress wife, the characters. The playwright will not cheapen his work to pander to the petty tastes of the masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife. To gain food and clothing for him, she sells herself to a succession of stage-door libertines. He gets the food and clothes. Finally he turns to a variety of unpleasant activities, brings the curtain down by strangling his wife in drunken frenzy...
Hampered by an absence of active dramatic material in the life of Lee, the playwright took upon himself the leaden load of unrelieved character drawing. Lee was, first of all, a gentleman; gentlemen make a point of avoiding the spectacular. An even keel of character can leave only a steady wake. Steadiness implies monotony...
...obvious, then, why dramatic critics delight in impaling a squirming situation on their argute pens and holding it up for ridicule with delighted cries of " hokum." A show that is " all hoked up " is obviously the work of a group of playwright, author and producer who lack imagination. They are feeding the audience last year's fare warmed over...
...Camel's Back. Playwright Maugham herein concerned himself with an irresponsible investigation of the regions of the utterly inane. He involved himself in such a feathery swirl of epigram and complication that along in Act II he found that he simply could not make his wits' ends meet. He gave up trying...
...play entitled Time is stirring uneasily in the provinces awaiting an opening in the congested theatre situation of Manhattan. Arthur Henry, husband of Playwright Clare Kummer, is the author and Stuart Walker, noted for a variety of theatrical accomplishments, including artistic stock companies in Cincinnati and Indianapolis, is the producer...