Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...show the conditions under which the playwright works in order to tell his story will be an important feature of Mr. Hersey's lectures. Among various topics which he will discuss are: the structure of plays, comedy, farce, melodrama, musical comedies, the "picture stage," the naturalistic settings, and the acting of Ibsen Pinero, Jones, Bernard Shaw, Barrie, Galsworthy, Augustus Thomas, and Rostand plays. These lectures are free and it is not necessary to procure any tickets. The entrance to the Lecture Hall of the Public Library is on the Boylston street side...
...John Drew's present offering is the work of Hubert Henry Davies, an English playwright whose "Molluse" and "Cousin Kate" have had productions here...
...lost child is found working in a Southern cotton mill under the usual unhealthful conditions; indeed in danger of life and limb from a broken machine. In this purely incidental manner Miss McFadden shows much more vividly the problem and the horrors of child slavery than many another playwright who has avowedly written of it alone...
Savery, J. C., playwright...
...Eaton '00, who has established an honorable position for himself in the world of American letters, especially in the field of criticism, opens the number with a forceful plea that proper respect be paid the professions of theatrical manager, playwright, or actor. He is right. We may say what we will of the degeneracy of the stage. The theatre will remain where it is until educated, high-minded men, realizing its almost unlimited possibilities as a factor in the up-lifting of our ideals, have the courage to make its improvement their life work...