Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WILD DUCK?The driving power of Ibsen in an anti-idealistic drama said to be a satire on the playwright's own life story...
Puppets. Frances Lightner has concocted a ragged play about rag dolls, human and otherwise. Into a rather unusual setting of a marionette theater on Mulberry Street, Manhattan, the playwright plucks somewhat forcibly at a snatch of the Pagliacci motif...
...Wild Duck. Ibsen† has become altogether too much a playwright of the printed page in our theatre. His works are rather reverenced than revived. Accordingly, it is immensely satisfying to see The Wild Duck live again in a conspicuously competent production of The Actors' Theatre. It provides an evening of exacting search through the mind and the emotions. This search is rewarded by one of the two or three most satisfying experiences in the season's schedule...
...contest will close on August 7, when reading of the plays will stop. Mr. Raftery of the Telegraph says: "It should be something for the playwright to know that his or her play will be at least read and appraised. Many successful producers do not even employ a play reader. Their desks (many of them) are piled with dust-covered manuscripts that have never been read." It is the purpose of the contest to form a clearing house for neglected scripts...
...Your president termed the law school--and justly, I have no doubt--the best in the country. I wonder, does he realize that such a school as Prof. Barker was engendering would make law schools superfluous? For you know, a good playwright is worth more than a good lawyer...