Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noted by several of the professional spectators that every English playwright has one plot in his system that he must unloose before he is happy. This is the story of the somewhat battered woman who marries into complete respectability and utter boredom (Tanqueray). Mr. Coward has now written it fairly well...
...audience is not satisfied always to associate one actor with one role. It is a sign of discrimination when the audience is able to appreciate true dramatic art which is only obtained when the actor makes of his role a vehicle for an interpretation as part of himself. The playwright furnishes only a black and white sketch of his play. It is for each individual actor to add the color. When one actor gives an exceptionally good interpretation of one role but is not above the ordinary in others, he is like a diamond with only a single polished facet...
MICHAEL SCARLETT?James Gould Cozzens?A. & C. Boni ($2.00). Varlet and lord, playwright and swordsman, revel once more in a bold Elizabethan frolic. With wit and a rapier Michael Scarlett, young Earl of Dunbury, fought his way through stirring Elizabethan times. Marlowe, Nash, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, were his cronies. Essex and Southampton were his friends. Elizabeth's favor and her disfavor were his fortune. A fair lady was his love. And death was his portion, and Marlowe...
...playwright arrives at this affirmative through the process of presenting a starving inventor who suddenly sees a chance to finance his brain-child and make many millions. The whole is rather elementary, rather energetically played, and quite unimportant...
Miss Taylor's latest production is a daring and penetrating effort by Philip J.Q. Barry, whose You and I was a Harvard Prize Play and a Manhattan success. He has undertaken to reveal the workings of a woman's heart; the heart of a wife whose playwright husband has made her a puppet in his mental workship. There is of course another man. Among these three a shadowy, elemental and amazingly penetrating triangle develops...