Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oathsome brutality, lusty wine-quaffing, noisy swordplay, sly bedroom tactics, swoony madrigals, neurotic vengeance and gory fratricide of Medicean times, as set forth lavishly in The Jest by Playwright Sem Benelli, were last week introduced in Cleveland. It was the play's first U. S. performance outside of Manhattan, inevitably provoking whispered comparisons by those in the audience who had seen the John-and-Lionel-Barrymore production of 1919. But never were comparisons more idle. The occasion was the opening of the new home of the Cleveland Play House, an outstanding "little" theatre now made unique...
...called "little" theatres operate on several principles-to encourage playwrights, to develop actors, to please an audience, to absorb the self-expressive energies of a community. The Provincetown Players were founded by the late George Cram Cook on premises including all these principles. Some results: the bringing-to-light of Playwright Eugene O'Neill, Actor Charles Gilpin, Stage-Designer Robert Edmund Jones...
...ROAD TO THE TEMPLE-Susan Glaspell-Stokes ($3). Biography of the late George Cram Cook, founder of the Provincetown Players, the man behind the scenes of Playwright Eugene O'Neill and many another whose name is better known to the wide world than "Jig" Cook...
...Plays and speakeasies are under the same form of regulation today in New York City," stated Cosmo Hamilton, in an interview following his talk on play-writing in Sever Hall yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hamilton, well known as an English playwright and novelist, is in Boston to give a series of talks before the opening next Monday of "Pickwick", a dramatization of Dickens' novel, in which Mr. Hamilton collaborated with Frank Reilly...
William Gillette, actor: "The ancient legend that actors are kindhearted, especially to one another, came to light again last week when I charged a play broker with grand larceny because he kept $1,000 which I had instructed him to give to Clare Kummer, actress and playwright. In 1925, Miss Kummer was in financial straits, when the opening of one of her plays was delayed. I wanted to assist her with $1,000, but I did not wish her to know it, so I used an intermediary...