Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea started rather well. A playwright lost in his youth the manuscript of his favorite work, never produced. The play heroine of his mind and heart tempted him into marriage with an actress of the same general appearance. The flesh and blood lady proved a false reality. Years later, she found the lost play, produced it, killed the sacred phantom with which her husband lived. There was little left...
...thanksgiving. With his three shows this year-The Piker, Taps, and Man or Devi]-the quantity has, it is true, been decreasing. The first were failures and the last will scarcely do on these hot evenings. Yet it is the best of the lot. Jerome K. Jerome, the playwright, had the quaint idea of shifting, through a convenient necromancy, the soul of a young sailor into the shuffling old body of a miser. The sailor got the stinginess in the transaction and immediately they traded girls. For an act, it looked as if the veteran would marry the fragile heroine...
...satiric wit of George Bernard Shaw is entertaining Copley audiences this week in two plays, and proving equally delightful in both. In "Great Catherine", a farce in four scenes, the playwright pokes fun at the foibles of the court of Catherine the Great, while in "The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet", he transports the audience to the American Great West to watch the trial of a horse thief and incidentally to listen to a philosophical disquisition on life...
MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
Born. To Sidney Howard, playwright, and Mrs. Howard (Clare Eames, actress), a daughter, Clare Eames; in Manhattan...