Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They thought, of course, that all these others were simply exploiting a convention over the bounds of which humble Herman had wickedly stepped. When Playwright George Bernard Shaw spoke out in London and denounced Christmas, the commercial phenomenon, as "an unbearable nuisance," they put the shoe on the other foot and called Mr. Shaw "George Bernard Scrooge,? publicity-hunter." When the Portland (Ore.) Ministerial Association passed a resolution against Christmas giving, there were editorial boos and jeers...
...Silver Cord. It matters little to Playwright Sidney Howard that Ned McCobb's Daughter (TIME, Dec. 13) must give way on alternate weeks to The Silver Cord. He wrote them both, is one of the few who have had two plays produced by the Theatre Guild in the same season. His new opus is a pungent satire savagely directed against the popular sentimentality that breathes violet perfume on "mother love." A wit in the audience loudly announced after the curtain line "Now to go home and shoot mother...
Born. To Basil Dean, co-dramatist with Margaret Kennedy of The Constant Nymph (TIME, Dec. 20), and Mrs. Dean (onetime Lady Mercy Greville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Warwick) ; a daughter (9 Ib.) in London. Playwright Dean cabled a wish she should be named Tessa, after the heroine of the play...
Business is no uncharted field for Dr. Cabot. It was he who encouraged Sidney Howard (now playwright) to work up and write The Labor Spy; he who helped institute the case system at Dean Donham's Harvard School of Business Administration. He recommends: enforcement of industrial codes by voluntary arbitration boards, the codes to embody the "maximum ethics" of Christianity...
...Constant Nymph. Playwright Basil Dean had the help of Margaret Kennedy herself in adapting her remarkable novel but the play came out as an episode, never a legend. The footlights, scenery, players and theatre talk, excellent though they are, bury temperaments in personalities. Irony becomes friction. The one character reproduced adequately is old Sanger, who never comes on stage...