Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goose Hangs High. Regarding the younger generation there seem to be only two attitudes. You must be either a pessimist or a chauvinist. Playwright Lewis Beach is the latter...
...student in a drama department of a woman's club gets very far without encountering the name of Percy MacKaye. He was America's most brilliant poet-playwright at a very young age. He is still that. America has no others; but Mr. MacKaye has never written a play which can touch his earliest efforts. The Canterbury Pilgrims and The Scarecrow remain his finest achievements. Too early he was entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success...
MacKaye was born in Manhattan, although he tells me that his family moved to Brattleboro shortly after, where his playwright father worked in the house later occupied by Kipling. He studied at Harvard and in Europe. He traveled widely. He taught and lectured. He has planned pageants such as Caliban. He has written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with...
Edward B. Sheldon '08, eminent playwright and author of the "Nigger", "Salvation Nell", "Romance" and other plays will be the new judge in the Belmont Theatre Prize Competition for this year, it was announced yesterday by the 47 Workshop...
Divorced. John Drinkwater, British author-playwright (Abraham Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Oliver Cromwell) by Kathleen Walpole Drinkwater, actress. Statutory grounds...