Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...finest play of the season arrived last week aglow with a stunning performance by Helen Hayes. The play was variously compounded out of Smith College and the intensely theatrical background of the melodrama, Broadway. In the cast of Broadway there once appeared one Ann Preston Bridgers, Smith girl, potential playwright. Her manuscript came under the canny eye of George Abbott, one of the authors of Broadway, and when he was through with it Jed Harris, producer of the same success, went out and hired a troupe. To head it he hired Helen Hayes, and by her playing she joined immediately...
...last night, the titles of the three one-act plays which the club will produce next month were announced. They will be the following: "Le Pater," a military drama by Francais Copet; "Hypnotisee", a farcical take-off on mysticism by Grenet-Dancourt; and "L'Intruse", by the Belgian artist-playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, a modern mystery-play which will be an innovation for the Cercle, which has hitherto presented nothing but old French classics...
...given some time in January, probably in Boston. Professor George La Piana will assist in producing this piece and may coach the production. No play has as yet been definitely chosen, but it is understood that the officers of the Circolo are considering a play by the Italian playwright Pirandelli...
...ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent book, entitled "Conversa- tions on Contemporary Drama," is published, by The Macmillan Company...
...Belt. If Henry Ford can take time enough off from supervision of his new motor car, he can see a new playwright* thumbing his nose at him (both hands), wiggling & waggling his fingers. Would Mr. Ford be interested? Many people thought not. He might see himself (unmistakably, although he is called simply "The Old Man") facing a revolt of his workmen with nine months' starvation before them as the works shut down. Previously they have been deadened to sub-mediocrity by the ceaseless sameness of their years of labor; finally, militia marches them to jail. There is also some...