Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Union this evening at 7.15, Mr. Edward Townsend, author of "Chimmie Fadden," "A Daughter of the Tenements," "The Sergeant," etc., will read a number of selections from his own works. Mr. Townsend is a prominent journalist, author and playwright of New York City, and is especially well known for his studies of Bowery life and dialect. He will read the following selections...
...comparison of "Vanity Fair" with "Becky Sharp," it must be remembered that one is the work of a great dramatist, the other of a minor playwright. At the outset it is manifest that the novel must be radically altered in plot before it can be put on the stage. It needs, as playwrights say, a "situation...