Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kismet was Fate as interpreted to the playgoing public by Mr. Knoblock, and the Tornado is Fate staging a comeback a la Knoblock. But the famous playwright can't leave Fate alone. Determined as he may be when he first puts her on the stage, Mr. Knoblock soon finds that she has the inscrutable ways of Woman, and the public for whom this playwright slaves are not up to the hurdles of the inscrutable...
...sentiment at the bottom, coated over with reliable gags like a little "inside stuff" on the ways of men of the world. Sometimes the hokum is worked into effective theatricality, when the play "gets across with a bang." Honor Be Damned seemed to "get across" at the first night. Playwright Mack made a speech: "Because I have so many plays running this season, people think I write them over night. Ladies and gentlemen, it takes me a long time to write a play. This one, for instance, was written last year...
George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph -TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have...
...London. He supported Mme. Simone in The Return From Jerusalem. At 28 he turned manager and introduced the plays of George Bernard Shaw to the U. S. He acted in Candida, Arms and the Man, The Man of Destiny. His work was not great art. It was very interesting. Playwright Shaw seemed then an outrageous iconoclast, Actor Daly, his mouthpiece, a daring pioneer. When Mr. Shaw became a vogue, Arnold Daly lost some of his importance, as the introducer on the speaker's platform is obliterated by the lecturer who gets up to speak. He had some failures...
Junk. Guffaws, not intended by the author, greeted this confection; Playwright Edwin Self is advertising manager for the Dayton Rubber Manufacturing Co., Dayton, Ohio. All praise to Dayton had he written a play, but has he? Junkman Ernest John (corpulent Sydney Greenstreet) has informal chats with God; radiates sunshine; feels led to rob a bank to help an aged invalid lady; with approval of the author does so. Old Sal (Emma Dunn) after rampaging all she can to offset the drivel, climaxes with a nerve-wrecking unexpected shriek?as Ernest John, in a large chair, slowly dies...