Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three Men On A Horse (Warner Brothers). Oiwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh), the greeting-card poet, originating obscurely in the brain of John Cecil Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed...
Johnny Johnson should also appeal to playgoers interested in seeing some of the theatre's traditional dimensions torn out and enlarged. Playwright Green, who supplied the Group with its first play, The House of Connelly, and fugitive German composer Weill, who set The Beggars' Opera to new music with notable success three years ago, have fashioned a show which does not hesitate to exploit any form of theatrical procedure necessary to attain its end. The production begins conventionally enough in April 1917 with Johnny Johnson (Russell Collins), a tombstone carver with an odd way of thinking things...
Carlton Miles, prominent Broadway critic and playwright, has been selected by the Dramatic Club to stage their production of "Jonah and the Whale", an English Comedy by James Bridie, it was announced today...
Well might Playwright O'Neill have felt surprised at receiving this generous share of the dead Swedish dynamite inventor's money, along with the world's most coveted literary honor. As a rule the Swedish Academy scrupulously attempts to see that no one nation or branch of literature gets more than its share of Nobel Prizes. The literary prize was not awarded last year. Since 1930, therefore, it has been given just five times, twice to U. S. citizens (Sinclair Lewis, 1930; Eugene O'Neill, 1936), thrice to dramatists (John Galsworthy, 1932; Luigi Pirandello, 1934; Eugene...
...Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their homeland of twelve tons of Chinese cadavers. Eye- worthy also (and a news beat) was a skyscape drawn by Artist F. R. Paul to show what levels will be traversed by Transcontinental & Western Air's proposed "Overweather" plane...