Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...etchings maybe she was boring her host to death, and he, to get rid of her, asked her to do this dreadful thing he knew no lady would dream of doing, and she fooled him. After she had been found there, as of course she was--trust the playwright for that!--by her husband, father, fiance, brother, or by any member of the cast except one of the servants,--after being so found, it was conventionally assumed by the audience that her honor was no more. She was "a gone coon," and the play could continue. In other words...
...league, which got quick backing. Burly, pipe-smoking Dr. March is currently its president. Most remarkable of the League's teams are the Yankees and the Tigers, both owned and backed by New York socialites. Owner of the Yankees is Broker James Irving Bush. Among its stockholders is Playwright Sidney Kingsley (Men in White). The team plays in red, white & blue uniforms, has two lady pressagents...
...PROUDLY WE HALL, play turned down by the Harvard Dramatic Club last year, closed this week on Broadway after a brief run of two weeks. Joseph M. Shapiro '36, "Playwright" in his class year book, wrote the play two years ago and submitted it to the Dramatic Club for production last spring. The Club Executive Committee is reported to have liked the show on reading it last December, but turned it down because of production difficulties and very possible censorship from the University or City Hall. At this time, the Club put on PUDDING FULL OF PLUMS, another student written...
Shapiro, who listed his intended vocation in the Album as playwright, wrote under the pseudonym of Joseph M. Viertel. He is 21 years old and prepared for Harvard at Staunton Military Academy, where perhaps he gathered the background for his work...
...plaintive radicals were inclined to inquire last week "Odets, where is thy sting?", sophisticated cinemaddicts were less surprised at the speed with which Hollywood had apparently caused Playwright Odets to modify his creed, than at that with which Playwright Odets had obviously acquired Hollywood's technique. Directed in somewhat over-ostentatious style by Lewis Milestone, The General Died at Dawn remains a first rate melodrama, vividly penned, performed and photographed. Good shot: a reporter (Novelist John O'Hara) getting credentials from General Yang by promising to run his story on the front page...