Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Linda Watkins) of an amiable but footloose playwright (Kenneth MacKenna...
Died. John Drinkwater, 54, British poet & playwright; in his sleep, of a heart attack possibly induced by excitement over the Oxford-Cambridge boat race; in London. He subsisted as an insurance man until he persuaded a rich young friend, Barry Jackson, to back his play Abraham Lincoln. At his death Playwright Drinkwater had completed The King's People, a film to be released at the Coronation starring George Bernard Shaw, the late Sir Austen Chamberlain, Lady Astor, himself...
...palms for acting is probably won by John M. Graham, '38, president of the club, and picaresque heroine of the current show. He gives us Miss Mae La Verne, who is pretty well described by her first name, and he captures all the seductive coarseness that his playwright colleagues have put into the part. Arnett McKennan, '37, as Gloria Mundi (And some of the best touches are to be found in the names.) makes a wholly satisfactory simple-minded, love-tossed heroine. In general, where the show is not brilliant it is still consistently diverting, and should have a prosperous...
Married, Laurence Stallings. 42, one-legged Manhattan playwright (What Price Glory?); and Louise St. Leger Vance, in Manhattan...
Noel's first Big Moment came with his first hit, The Vortex. From then on his career as playwright, actor, song-&-dance man, revue writer went from peak to peak...