Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard by itself, certain crucial questions will have to be considered and thoroughly deliberated. In the first place, does the nature of teaching, being in its higher forms essentially the giving of personal conclusions, allow of any regimentation? Dramatists' have been known to balk at the name of playwright on the grounds that it levels them with the cartwright and the wheelwright. Hence it is doubtful that teachers, every bit as sensitive, will allow themselves to be organized on the plebeian lines of labor...
Died. Francis Wilson, 81, famed old-time actor, manager, producer, playwright, author, founder and first president of Actors' Equity Association; of heart dilation following an operation; in Manhattan. Best-known role: Cadeaux in Erminie...
...cripple Porgy, this time with music for himself and the 75 other blacks living in Catfish Row, returned last week to Manhattan. He was still the brainchild of Playwright DuBose Heyward, still the protege of Manhattan's Theatre Guild which took him under its wing eight years ago. For one week Porgy and Bess, with a 700-page score by Composer George Gershwin (TIME, Sept. 30), played in Boston, won high praise. On opening night in Manhattan half the Somebodies in town crowded in to hear this latest attempt at a U. S. folk opera...
...King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...
Herbert Marshall hasn't done anything as refreshing as "Accent on Youth" since the halcyon days of "Trouble in Paradise" with Miriam Hopkins. This latest vehicle is about a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with a girl of twenty-six, but doubts his ability to hold her against the onslaught of youth. And the onslaught is not long in arriving-in the form of a Princeton...