Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...James M. Barrie, British playwright: " In London, attention was called to the fact that three plays by me?What Every Woman Knows at the Apollo, The Will (one-act) at the St. Martin's, Rosalind (one^act) at the Criterion?are running simultaneously, and that a fourth, The Little Minister, would soon be revived...
Died. James O'Neill, Jr., actor, 43, son of the late James O'Neill (actor, hero of The Count of Monte Cristo), brother of Eugene O'Neill, playwright (The Emperor Jones, The Straw, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape), at a Trenton, N. J., hospital...
Last Wednesday Mr. Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright, set what is believed to be a new record in systematic fault-finding. With such startling rapidity were his points of criticism against the United States rattled off that Mr. Zangwill bids fair to equal famous football teams in being a point-a-minute machine...
...produce plays of the newer, fresher sort, that within easy recollection were novel and successful in New York; that no other hands are likely to bring hither. They are now making a beginning with "Ambush," as truthful, human, moving tragedy, in little and around the corner, as an American playwright has written. They so stage and act the piece that it barely falls short of the original performances in New York by the Theatre Guild. Fast are audiences held. A light sophisticated comedy, Harry Gribble's "March Hares," will follow, with other pieces in prospect no less interesting...
Rossum's Universal Robots, patented by the Czech playwright Karel Capek, are no more curious and involuntary machines than genus homo as he is analyzed in the latest theories of Dr. George W. Crile, the great Cleveland surgeon...