Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...network heard a radio drama whose acts were divided, not with the usual fading and swelling of music, but with a rumbling sound as of an oldtime curtain going up & down. The play was The Minute Men of 1774-5, by James A. Herne, 19th Century playwright, father of Actresses Julie and Chrystal Herne. NBC's actors carefully did not burlesque this story of Minute Man Reuben Foxglove's beauteous ward, Dorothy, who turned out to be the long-lost daughter of a British noble, and for whose affections a British officer and an Indian chief vied...
...opening night, reported wide-awake Columnist Leonard Lyons, a woman who in pre-Nazi Vienna would have merited the Royal Box sat all alone in the balcony: Mrs. Arthur Schnitzler, the refugee widow of Austria's most famous playwright...
Unquenchable Playwright Saroyan ha just written a new play, The Time of Your, Life, in six days, having meant to write it in five. Aware that many people could not make head or tail of My Heart's in the Highlands, for the new work Saroyan composed a 200-word explanatory note, to be blared through a microphone before the curtain rises...
Died. Ernst Toller, 45, German expressionist poet and playwright (Man and the Masses) ; by his own hand (hanging); a few days after attending a world convocation of writers (see p. 79); in Manhattan. Leader of social revolutionary movements in post-War Germany, Toller wrote many of his works in prison, was exiled by the Nazis, fought Fascism in Spain, worked in the U. S. to aid Spanish refugees...
...last week in Rome. The New York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...