Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crooks' Convention. What would happen if all the criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...
...Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
Died. Jesse Lynch Williams, playwright (Why Marry? Why Not?), author (Princeton Stories, The Stolen Story, Other Newspaper Stories); of a heart attack; at the home of Theodore Douglas Robinson, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; in Herkimer...
Eugene O'Neil is considered by many the foremost American playwright. He studied under George Pierce Baker '87, formerly the tutor of the famed "47 Workshop...
Helen Hayes, wife of Playwright Charles MacArther (Lulu Belle, co- author The Front Page) broke her contract to play in Coquette next season. When the Actors' Equity Association complained she answered: "Surely I broke my contract, I'm going to have a baby. That is more important to me than the title role in Coquette...