Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stubbornly believing himself invincible against the encroachments of time. The iron is driven, at last, into his soul. Broken in body, robbed of his faith in his own supremacy, he falls, like an oak that tried to withstand the spring floods long after its sap had dried up. Playwright Murray has created a character, brilliantly interpreted by Una O'Connor; a wizened Cassandra, whose unheeded prophecies point, from the beginning, to the Nemesis...
...spring of 1924 there burst upon an unprepared Cambridge the most radical departure from conventional drama technique that any American playwright has written. John Dos Passos's '16 "The Moon is a Gong" is a radical play in every detail, and an extremely interesting one It was put on Broadway last year and then taken off with the announcement that it would return this fall. Of the original presentation, by the Harvard Dramatic Club, there is little to say which has not already been said: if suffices perhaps to mention the fact that "The Moon is a Gong...
...plays were given--plays by students in the University or Radcliffe. The first venture was "The Promised Land," by Allan Davis, '07. The merit of the production did much to establish the calibre of work which could be expected of the Harvard Dramatic Club. Hermann Hagedorn, '07 poet and playwright, wrote two of the four one-act playlets which comprised the next bill--presented in the spring...
Daisy Mayme. George Kelly became a playwright on the vaudeville circuit. At one time it was his business to fashion single act skits for the two-a-day. In doing so, he studied homely characters, setting them into homely situations, for the amusement of audiences that generally failed to appreciate the unobtrusive irony of the whole. His real genius, then as now, lay in a faculty for etching characters with acidic dialogue. The Torch Bearers, The Show-off Craig's Wife, have established him as playwright-director, have also established Rosalie Stewart, first to appreciate his genius...
...Ladder. In order to reconcile the hardships of life with his faith in a benevolent Deity, Playwright J. Frank Davis has evolved a quaint philosophy of reincarnation. After an intolerably unhappy 13th Century, a group of people squirm, reincarnated, into the 17th Century, from there into the 19th Century, from there into the 20th Century, where, at last, matters are so divinely ordered that the heroine can have both a career and a husband with a good job and the right personality. Such a philosophy of transmigration, in short, as might make the Buddha so far forget himself...