Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying comparatively comic snitches here...
Appointed. Frank Gillmore, actor, father of Actress Margalo Gillmore; to be President of the Actors' Equity Association, succeeding John Emerson, playwright, husband of Anita (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Loos...
Eugene O'Neill, playwright, disappeared last week. He was heard of in Shanghai, where he was suffering and recovering from a slight nervous breakdown and bronchitis. Before he disappeared, he wrote a letter to his physician, as follows: "I came to China seeking peace and quiet and hoping that here at least people would mind their business and allow me to mind mine. But I have found more snoops and gossips per square inch than in any New England town of 1,000 inhabitants. This does not apply to American newspaper correspondents who have been most decent carrying...
...bound to be some stage talent, which if it were not for the college dramatic clubs, might never be brought forth "Many who originally participate in college plays more for the fun of it than because of the recantation that they can act, later become well known actors," the playwright went on. "The few that enter college with a dramatic career in mind have ample opportunity to develop their talents in the under graduate productions...
When St. John Ervine, famed London playwright and drama-critic, came last September to Manhattan to write reviews for the New York World, the World asked certain show-guns to express their opinion of the appointment. Most replied in paeans to the critic, hoping thereby to make him flatter their productions. Not so Producer Philip Goodman. He wrote to the World in part as follows...