Word: proved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should the clash come next fall, no matter what the result, the playwrights would be the grist between the theatrical millstones, the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America is trying to reconcile little brother manager and little sister Equity. Should the efforts of the dramatists prove unavailing, they propose to organize as a labor union and join the A. F. of L. Then, if either actor or manager should try to start anything with them-well, just let them try it! Another worm lias turned-a managerial one. Among the pieces which Oliver Morosco intends...
ROMEO AND JULIET?Street brawls, a moonlit balcony, young love, clandestine marriage ? Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters prove that these are the prerogatives of youth...
With these drawbacks firmly in the reader's mind, the book will probably prove decidedly interesting to a follower of professional baseball. Who, for example, knows that Hans Wagner made the longest throw on record ? That Bugs Raymond once took the Keely cure? That McGraw raised Fred Snodgrass' salary $1,000 after the fielder muffed the fly which cost the Giants a World's Series...
...most important plays of the anthology are "The Dreamy Kid" and "Thursday Evening", by Eugene O'Neill and Christopher Morley respectively. Mr. of a young married couple and their mothers-in-law who prove to be far more sensible, and to have a greater sense of humor, than their traditional prototypes. Mr. O'Neill's drama of negro life builds up to the curtain with the keen sure, subtle strokes of a master in technique. It illustrates once again the writer's extraordinary power of creating an atmosphere that transcends the actual lines and action of the play. With these...
...even if this book of suggestions does not prove a means of introducing the millenium, it should accomplish a vast amount of good by diverting creative energy into truly useful channels. If inventors will direct their resourcefulness toward carrying out the sane suggestions in "What's Wanted", they will not only spare themselves much profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have...