Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Dorothy Agnes Donnelly, 48, actress, playwright (Blossom Time, The Student Prince and others); in Manhattan, of pneumonia...
...Dust. A big rubber man of Indo-China was pinned under the playwright's microscope and allowed to squirm heroically into the blessed state of matrimony. Scourges of the tropics?heat, drought, insects, dust?add to his squirms. He passes an uncomfortable and highly monosyllabic evening. He is the strong & silent type of rubber...
...Enemy. Two years ago in Manhattan, Playwright Charming Pollock offered theatre-goers a play whose purpose was to prove the too-often demonstrated assertion that War is Hell. Transposed now to the more extensive medium of the cinema, The Enemy monotonously but accurately hammers the nail of that assertion into the stout oak of the public intelligence...
Paris Bound. There have been since men and women started getting married an indefinite number of gravely ingenious arguments why "not" should be struck from the Seventh Commandment. Philip J. Q. Barry, able younger playwright, makes a happy marriage; all but breaks it when this irritating monosyllable is overemphasized. In the last, lithe moments of his comedy the man and wife decide presumably to forgive and forget...
...Tunney. Of their characters, careers and managers, the Celebrity, "Barry Regan," and his impressario, " 'Circus' Snyder," are licensed composites. Personal mannerisms alone are spared. As for the women the play involves, and the shady proposition of the big promoter, theatregoers can only conjecture how libelous Reporter-Playwright Willard Keefe has been in his notably entertaining effort to put the headlines behind the footlights...