Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Road Together achieved a modern metropolitan record by opening and closing the same night. Playwright Middleton (author or collaborator of Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva, The Other Rose) objected to Marjorie Rambeau's "indifference" in performance; Producer Woods sustained his objection' and the play was withdrawn. The next day the Woods office discussed cancelling Miss Rambeau's $1,500 a week contract; she was incapacitated with, a, "nervous breakdown...
...Road Together achieved a modern metropolitan record by opening and closing the same night. Playwright Middleton (author or collaborator of Polly with a Past, Adam and Eva, The Other Rose) objected to Marjorie Rambeau's "indifference" in performing; Producer Woods sustained his objection and the play was withdrawn. The next day the Woods office discussed cancelling Miss Rambeau's $1,500 a week contract; she was incapacitated with a "nervous breakdown...
...time "Heaven Helps Him", by Robert Leven. Like the proof of the pudding, the proof of the play lies in the way it is received. And the audience showed their appreciation of Mr. Leven's satire in a manner which would warm the heart of many a better known playwright. Though some might occasionally accuse the author of over caricaturing, yet the people were so well drawn that the pathetic could be seen beneath the gloss of humor...
...American letters. He does not make enemies. He is honest, fairminded, sincere. Also, he his a hard worker. At the present time he is moving into a new home which he has built for his wife and family on the outskirts of New Haven, near the home of his playwright brother-in-law, Lee Wilson Dodd. He commutes from New Haven to his office in New York City. It is said he has learned that he can write a short essay each week in just the two hours it takes him to travel from New Haven to New York...
Major Ian Hay Beith, British playwright-novelist: "Arriving in the U.S. on my way to the West Indies, I said: 'Men of today lack the old-fashioned reverence for women that was the most sacred thing in life. . . Men of New York and London should refuse to give more than one cocktail to any woman on any occasion. They should unite to restore woman to her old pedestal. . . They should not take women to night clubs and give them drinks...