Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willard Mack, prolific actor-playwright, last season produced The Noose, Lily Sue, Hangman's House, Honor Be Damned. He himself played in Lily Sue and Honor Be Damned. He has made 1,000 curtain speeches...
Picketers' Appeal. For "sauntering and loitering" in front of the State House in Boston, 156 men and women were arraigned, found guilty. All but six were fined $5 and paid the fine. The others? Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet; Ellen Hayes, retired Wellesley College professor; John Howard Lawson, playwright; William Patterson, Negro lawyer; Ela Reeve Bloor and Catherine Huntington, liberal gentlewomen?were fined $10. Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays of the American Civil Liberties Union counseled them to appeal their cases, as tests. His argument...
...trudges back to his dining-room. There she discovers him. Being a democratic U. S. girl, the heiress graciously trots into the kitchen after the dejected one, inquires "What does it matter, anyway?" smoothes the lofty complacency that has suffered its first and only ruffle. Ernst Vajda, Hungarian playwright, wrote the scenario for this most delightful of recent films...
...company are: Helen, Herman & Hans Thimig (dubbed the German Barrymores) ; Moissi; Lili Darvas (wife of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar); Sokoloff; Hans Moser; Rosamond Pinchot...
...some travelers the International Date Line is disconcerting, but not to Count Leo N. Tolstoi, philosopher, sculptor, playwright, political scientist, third son and namesake of the late Russian novelist. Crossing the Date Line eastward in 1917, he fell to thinking about the phenomenon. He noticed that it had made him feel blithe of spirit, hopeful. When he reached Chicago, he wrote in his notebook: "I have made a greater discovery than any man now living?perhaps it is the greatest discovery of all time...