Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emery played the lover with snatches of success and patches of poverty. The same inconsistency of performance marred the husband in the hands of William Courtleigh, Kathlene Macdonnell made of the lady all that a playwright could expect...
...strove to foresee what further excursions, alarms, awaited their University. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School since 1916, had been elected President of the University of Wisconsin, promised a salary of from $12,000 to $15,000 a year. He, after a conference with Miss Zona Gale, playwright member of a special Wisconsin committee, accepted the post. It is expected that he will remove to Wisconsin when President R. A. Birge, after over 50 years of service in that University, retires at the end of this year...
Thomas C. Grattan, British consul and author, by H. Grattan Donnelly, the playwright...
...Valley of Content. Marjorie Rambeau, one of the few actresses to have played a one-night stand on Broadway (TIME Jan. 28, 1924), returned last week in a trashy tale of scrambled emotions that all turned out to be a dream. Possibly the playwright can be pardoned some of the incoherence because it was a dream. She probably will not be pardoned. Sorrowing mother, dancing children, shots and harlotry-all the old devices of the thriller thump their weary way across the stage. All this to prove that existence in the country is safer than existence in the city. Miss...
...African post at the cost of most of his ideals and all of his illusions. He renews the repetation as an actor which he won with Boston audiences at the Copley Theatre a few years ago, and he establishes himself for the first time as a successful playwright. For after all is over, it dawns upon us that the author of "White Cargo" really has something...