Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gordon, producer) is calculated to give the Men two of the most shockingly informative hours of their lives and is so clever that few women would willingly miss it. Its cast of 35 is entirely feminine and its subject is exactly what its title suggests. Halfway through scene i, Playwright Boothe makes a distinction between Women and Females. Mary Haines (Margalo Gillmore), a gracious and home-loving blonde with one husband, two children and a heart filled with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest of The Women are females, belonging...
...half-breed children, is a story which has no surprises for those familiar with the Medea legend, or even readers of Joseph Hergesheimer's almost identical narrative, Java Head (1919). An eager minority of the play's first audience impulsively applauded the more ringing of poetic Playwright Anderson's soliloquies, went home satisfied that they had seen and heard an-other Mary of Scotland, another eloquent Anderson sermon about the depths of human love and human perfidy. Less impressionable people found Playwright Anderson off form this time, deplored his tendency toward purple prolixity wished he might comb...
According to the present law, though a publisher must consult the author before reprinting a book and a playwright has legal right to a reasonably careful production, the owner of a picture can reproduce it in any form he chooses unless the reproduction rights have been specifically reserved. As Spokesman Sloan pointed out last week, a 10? reprint of a popular novel will not affect the author's reputation; a poor reproduction of a painting, for those who are not familiar with the artist's original work, may be disastrous...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
Divorced. Laurence Stallings, 42, one legged Manhattan author & playwright (The Big Parade, What Price Glory?) by Mrs. Helen Poteat Stallings; in Reno Nev. Grounds: mental cruelty...