Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Journalist, editor, novelist, short story writer, playwright, philanthropist, essayist - Theodore Dreiser has been each in turn. He entered newspaper work at the age of 21. After a few months on the Chicago Daily Globe, he became dramatic editor and traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and subsequently traveling correspondent of the St. Louis Republic. He was for some years employed in special editorial work for Harper's, Century and other large publishing houses. From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator...
Died.?Mrs. Rupert Hughes, 39, second wife of the novelist-playwright, in whose plays she sometimes appeared, at Haiphong, China, suicide, probably the result of a nervous collapse following her experiences in the Japanese earthquake...
...Potters. Though the word "boob" is rather an outworn colloquialism, it must be revived to designate the type lampooned by Playwright J. P. McEvoy. He has written a satire live with savage bristles, has hurled it full in the face of the great American boob...
...Hecht, novelist, playwright: "Charged with sending obscene matter throught the mails, Wallace Smith (illustrator) and I will go on trial Feb. 4 before Judge W. C. Lindley, of Chicago. The name of the book which caused us trouble is Fantazius Mallare...
...play is a satirical comedy purporting to display middle age at a disadvantage in contrast to first and second childhood. Three generations of the same family are summoned by the playwright. Father and mother are about to disagree amiably in order that father may marry another. Daughter is horrified; grandfather and grandmother combine with their children's child to prevent the family schism. Their efforts are for the most part amusing and occasionally approach a comic brilliance...