Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gang War. Whatever may be Willard Mack's inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king...
Died. Augustin MacHugh, 45, playwright (Officer 666); of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...Author Morley been alone in his venture, many persons would have supposed that he would soon discover how and where the boos begin. He was not alone. Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble and Stage-designer Cleon Throckmorton were his most noteworthy associates. For their first season of production, several plays were mentioned: March Hares, Dracula, The Old Soak, dramatization of Where the Blue Begins, dramatization of Thunder on the Left...
Married. Helen Hayes, famed & winsome actress (What Every Woman Knows, Coquette); and Charles MacArthur, playwright (Lulu Belle, The Front Page, with Ben Hecht); in Manhattan. Of the wedding party were Critic Alexander Woollcott, Novelist Ben Hecht...
Married. Dr. Benvenuto Hauptmann, 28, son of famed playwright Gerhart Hauptmann; and Princess Elise of Schaumburg-Lippe; at Dwasieden Castle, near Sassnitz, Germany...