Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brash old George Bernard Shaw, who coined the word "Bardolatry," has never denied that he is a better playwright than Shakespeare. For Shakespeare's Cymbeline he has long had particular contempt, has called it "stagy trash of the lowest melodramatic order." Last week London play-goers had a chance to see an allegedly improved Cymbeline, by Shakespeare & Shaw...
Manhattan's sludgy East Side, where fine river bank apartment houses rise self-consciously in the midst of four-story squalor, was the locale of Playwright Sidney Kingsley's melodrama, Dead...
...provided for in Playwright Kingsley's script was Spit's real-life pursuit of Francey. Ardent notes, visits to her lodgings, abrupt intrusions into her dressing room caused Actress Green anxious moments, finally brought Spit before the Stony Creek, Conn., police. Warned there and released, he worshipped from afar until the company returned to Manhattan, disbanded about seven months...
Magistrate Kross decided Spit's criss-crossed viewpoint was the result of having left the slums for a brief taste of fame. She requested Playwright Kingsley, as the man responsible for the play, to report to her chambers. Wary Playwright Kingsley pleaded pressure of work, invited Magistrate Kross to visit him at his home where "we can discuss this issue rationally, as two human beings interested in a third. . . . The only real blame I have is that the play didn't run forever. I will do my best to remedy that the next time." Magistrate Kross adjourned Spit...
Where older hands fumble the difficult job of turning books into plays, Playwright Doherty, a young Toronto barrister, succeeds. His dramatization retains the saltily reverent flavor that won for Bruce Marshall's novel an appreciative public...