Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chose death by their own hands. Other prominent suicides were bespectacled Baron Odo Neustaedter-Stuermer, a Heimwehr leader under Dollfuss; Financier Gottfried Kunwald and Dr. Otto Russo, director of Austria's largest bank, the Oesterreichische Credit-Anstalt. At week's end erudite Egon Friedell, Jewish historian and playwright, jumped to his death from a fourth-floor window...
...Hill Between (by Lula Vollmer; produced by Robert Butterfield). In 1923 Lula Vollmer achieved a Broadway hit with her play about mountain folk, Sun-Up. Like Mahomet, Playwright Vollmer has been going to the mountain ever since. But in the past 15 years hillbillies have lost much of their freshness on the stage...
Last week, in The Hill Between, Playwright Vollmer told of the mountain boy who went to the city, got lost between two worlds. As he puts it: "A man spends his youth dreaming out, and all the rest of his life dreaming back." Lula Vollmer ruined her theme by implying that all folk ways are wholesome, all city ways evil. The square dance in Act II is jolly enough. The gunshot in Act III is a little too jolly...
...some of Broadway's thunder. The Federal Theatre offered Haiti there with a half-white, half-Negro cast, and a half-white, half-Negro audience united in applauding it. The vivid set was the work of Perry Watkins, the only professional Negro stage designer in the U. S. Playwright Du Bois (Pagan Lady) has plundered- and partly falsified-history for a swift, swaggering, shoot-to-kill melodrama about the Haitian Negro uprising of 1802 under Henri Christophe...
...Mice and Men. Playwright John Steinbeck's fine adaptation of Novelist John Steinbeck's best seller (TIME...