Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loss of an ordinary - but highly prized-shirt, size 16. (P. 26.) A popular American playwright quite stretched out of joint...
Sued for divorce. By Marjorie Rambeau, actress, Hugh Dillman McGaughey, actor. She charges cruelty, nonsupport, desertion. She divorced Willard Mack, playwright...
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. Three notable names combine to give this play preliminary prestige before the curtain, rises. David Belasco, foremost American producer for many years, will sponsor it; St. John Ervine, Irish novelist and playwright, is the author; Mrs. Fiske, Mother Superior of the order of American actresses, will be the star. Mr. Belasco will import an English leading man. The play is a modern comedy...
...story of Duse and Gabriele d'Annunzio, soldier, poet, playwright, is scarcely matched in all history. He, the great passion of her life, apparently returned her love, and for a time they lived together. It is indicative of the idolatry with which she was regarded that Roman Catholic Italy took no exception to the union, though Duse and d'Annunzio were never married. La Gioconda, one of the great plays of all literature, was one of the various artistic products of their life together...
...Fannie Hurst, not wanting to be photographed, though looking quite as radiant as usual, told me that she has chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton Hamilton, rescued from Hollywood and the motion pictures...