Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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White Wings. At 30, reticent, sensitive, Philip Barry finds himself well in the van of younger U.S. playwrights. Four of his plays have been produced: You and I (47 Workshop Harvard Prize Play, 1923); The Youngest (1924); In A Garden (1925); White Wings (1926). Not all have been successful, financially. But Mr. Barry is a success. Confidently, he holds definite opinions: he must have a year in which to write a play; Terence is his idea of a good playwright; he refuses to limit himself to one or two special themes; realism, "a slice of life," means nothing...
...Ibsen's 'The Lady from the Sea'" is the boast of the Repertory Theatre for the present fortnight. Duse delighted in the role of Ellida, the lady from the sea. It required every lota of her energy and that of her company to carry the emotional strain which the playwright puts upon his puppets. And now Repertory advertises a professional performance...
...Lady from the Sea" is an education. It is a superb example of the ability of a playwright to shatter his play into two score small scenes, almost all dialogues, without breaking the emotional thread. From the first rise of the curtain, which reveals color disharmony rampant, to the last discordant blast of the steamer's whistle which closes the play, there is a jangling, an oppressive sultriness which distinguishes the play...
Prominent speakers will address the Society from time to time during the year. Among these are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, Lecturer in Literature at the New School for Social Research, New York City, David Pinski, playwright, and Julian W. Mack, Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, New York...
Just Life. Vexed, Playwright John Bowie turned upon his critics. Said he in a neatly inserted advertisement : Gentlemen of the Press...