Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nervous Wreck. There are those who have doubted seriously, in print, that Playwright Owen Davis is an artist; yet they cannot deny his versatility. Last year he won the Pulitzer Prize with his gloomy, bitter Icebound. He has now delivered himself of the most supremely silly, the most thunderously amusing of farces. Otto Kruger, the hero, steps immediately into the front rank of our funniest farceurs...
Floriani's Wife. Academically interesting, but not emotionally vigorous, this play by Luigi Pirandello (Italian playwright, who wrote Six Characters in Search of an Author) arrived in a Greenwich Village theatre, off the beaten Broadway track. It tells of a wayward woman, her attempt to return to her child and husband, her failure. Margaret Wycherly is the redeeming feature. But even the fire of her intelligent performance shines but dimly under the bushel of interminable talk...
Sued for divorce. John Drinkwater, poet and playwright (author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart. Oliver Cromwell, Robert E. Lee, editor of The Outline of Literature), by Mrs. Kathleen Walpole Drinkwater, former actress. Charges not stated. The case is not defended...
Eugene O'Neill, generally regarded as the foremost American playwright, has fused a number of his early one-act plays into a longer drama. Scholars will remember them mainly as sea sketches, with The Moon of the Caribbees the major representative. The long play will be given by the Provincetown players, who first accorded O'Neill metropolitan recognition...
Kate Douglas Wiggin (Mrs. George C. Riggs), author and playwright (Sept. 28,1859). Besides writing the ever-popular The Birds' Christmas Carol and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, she was also a pioneer in certain charitable work and organized the first free kindergarten on the Pacific Coast...