Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale 1918. Other members of the class: Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, Ohio State Senator John Martin Vorys (son of William Howard Taft's political sponsor, Arthur Isaiah Vorys), Playwright Philip J. Q. Barry (You and I, In a Garden, etc.), Book Critic John Chipman Farrar, Novelist Wilmarth S. Lewis (See MILESTONES, p. 24), Chevalier Artemus L. Gates of the Legion of Honor, Newell Garfield (presidential grandson), Arthur Yales (gargantuan golfer...
...York Herald Tribune: ". . . An artless playwright who has read Desire Under the Elms with admiration, but with little profit...
...Uninvited Guest. Every now and then a mountain play just has to come in to relieve some playwright's mind of the discovery that simple folk suffer strenuously. This is one about a young wife, an ancient crabbed husband, a philandering preacher. The arrival of a baby not the husband's proves troublesome...
Married. Sean O'Casey, famed Irish playwright (Juno and the Paycock) ; to Eileen Carey, actress (Irish Players Co.) ; in London. Eccentric Mr. O'Casey wore a sweater during the ceremony, as he usually does to theatre first nights...
...like an insect's wings with a curious bright bloom of sudden wisdom and golden wonder. The Author. Author Lehmann is the daughter of English R. C. Lehmann, famed oarsman, noted writer, member of the staff of Punch; she is a cousin of Owen Davis, famed U. S. playwright. Bred in Bourne End, England, she studied at Cambridge, published one poem in a magazine, then this book...