Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after spending six months in Hollywood doing nothing, Pascal left in disgust. He arrived in London and out of a clear sky called Playwright Shaw, whom he had never met. Pascal said he wanted to produce Shaw's plays...
Practically every producer in Hollywood has tried to buy the rights to Bernard Shaw's plays at one time or another. Playwright Shaw's most famed reply to such offers was that which he made to Sam Goldwyn. When the most egregious producer in the world assured him that his work would be treated not as a commercial venture but as art, Shaw answered, "Mr. Goldwyn, you are interested in art and I am interested in money...
...When Playwright Shaw asked Pascal how much money he had, Pascal replied: "Fifteen shillings and sixpence-but I owe a pound." As much delighted with this effrontery as with Pascal's obvious admiration for his work, Playwright Shaw gave him a pound to pay his debts, agreed to the experiment. With Shaw's approval for his project he had little trouble getting as much as he needed. He assembled about $250,000-less than Hollywood spends on most quickies. He hired Screenwriters W. P. Lipscomb and Cecil Lewis to write a scenario, rented a studio...
...Last week Tobacco Road played in Augusta, Ga., a few miles from the play's locale. To get the price of a gallery seat Tobacco Readers industriously picked beans, Playwright Erskine Caldwell's father, the Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell, shepherded them to Augusta for the show...
...Most successful 19th-Century playwright was famed Irish-born Dion Boucicault whose The Streets of New York played 2,800 times in all, London Assurance 2,900 times, The Colleen Bawn...