Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. John Drinkwater, famed British poet-playwright, to Miss Daisy Kennedy, violinist; in London. Mr. Drinkwater was divorced by his first wife on statutory grounds (TIME...
...Guild's Board of Managers, responsible for its choice of plays and general policy, consists of "a banker, a lawyer, an actress, an artist, a producer and a playwright"; that is, in the same order, Maurice Wertheim, Lawrence Langner, Helen Westley, Lee Simonson, Theresa Helburn, and Philip Moeller. Of these, Theresa Helburn, tireless and ubiquitous Executive Director and Mrs. Westley, an accomplished actress of vigorous originality, were the pair chiefly accountable for the birth and rise of the Guild. Finding the theatre "frankly commercial," the Guild has never posed as a society of pure artists...
Balloting resulted in the election of : Émile Picard, member of the Academy of Science and professor of mathematics at the Sorbonne; Albert Besnard, Director of the Académie des Beaux Arts, best known artist in France; Georges Lecomte, journalist, author, playwright, historian, critic - literary handy man. The latter's political biography of ex-Premier Georges Clemenceau is said to be the best of its kind...
...that cannot be said now. Yet if the screen was ever moving, if producers have ever credited their patrons with perception sufficient to be delighted by suggestion, by nuance of lighting, gesture and stage-composition, for the expression of valid emotions, then these things have come to pass again. Playwright Andreyev has Victor Seastrom to thank for directing, Lon Chancy for acting, a highly authentic recreation. "He," one recalls, is a much-slapped circus clown, beloved by the world only for a buffoonery which he wrings from the shattered, poignant remnant of a life known to none but himself...
...American drama would benefit considerably if some one would offer a new prize, to be awarded to the first playwright who shall treat college life in a manner convincing to college men. Until some such incentive is offered, the theatrical university and its students will continue to fit the conception of the average American moron...