Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after the first burst of enthusiasm is over it requires considerable effort to get down to a normal critical plane and find anything like the perspective so easily applied to the average play. In the first place, Andreyev's "Life of Man" is obviously the work of a playwright who sees little or no hope for man in his present state of society. It is bitter, deeply so in parts, and tries at every turn to focus the listener's attention on the utter futility of Man's days on earth, and the frailty of his very work. With this...
Undoubtedly the most difficult scene to handle was the third, in which Man, now a rich and influential playwright, gives a ball for his friends. Skillful in balancing the previous scene when Man and his wife were the seekers, the ambitious ones, and the unfortunates, against their single and dramatic appearance (without a word on their part) in this scene, Andreyev has brought his symbolism into play anew; and the chorus of "how costly", "how gorgeous", "honor", mock adoration, etc., satirizes the autocracy of wealth. The maddening monotony of all this is only excelled by the musicians, who labored heroically...
...play rich in possibilities, disappointing in execution, is the verdict that must be passed on Lawrence's "The Ghost Between," which the St. James is offering as its bill for the week. The plot is strong enough to stand alone; the situations are such as a better playwright's fingers might itch to lay hold of. In the prologue, Dr. Dillard tries without success to save the life of Ethel's husband. Two years later, Dr. Dillard is a millionaire and Ethel is a poverty-stricken widow, immersed in the memory of her husband. The doctor has discovered that...
...contest was open to undergraduates of all colleges in the United States. Over a thousand manuscripts were, submitted, coming from colleges and universities in 28 states. The judges were Mr. Witter Bynner '02, well-known playwright and former assistant editor of McClure's Magazine; Mr. Arthur Davison Ficke '04, author and poet; and Mr. Haniel Clark Long '10, of the Poetry Society...
...four years of battlefields than it was for hundreds of thousands of men. And the puzzles of suffrage and parental duties have been so current in speech and press for the last few years that most of us have our own solutions readymade, without the intervention of an interpreting playwright...