Word: writing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that wilted soon after exposure. Some were independent experiments, brilliant in spots, dull on the whole. An opera requires musicianship but it fails without the accompaniment of theatre. So Signor Gatti-Casazza selected the creators of the Henchman. Edna St. Vincent Millay, poetess with a dramatic sense, was to write the libretto (TIME, Jan. 17); Deems Taylor, composer of concert music, onetime music critic of the N. Y. World, would provide the score...
...native" theme. Indians? Witchcraft? Skyscrapers? No, the most native to U. S. spirit, decided Miss Millay, is the old Saxon legend. The Saxon is nearer than the redman; the turbulent warrior dearer than the Puritan, to our age. Theirs was a forthright, swaggering, romantic spirit. Mr. Taylor would write his music true to the hunt, the forest, the clash of sword, the misty superstitions, the feudal ideals of loyalty...
...London. I cannot keep still. If I stay like this my grandchildren will be tying me to a tree in the back yard. . . .I have decided to loaf about the world for two years and shall probably be all over the place unless stopped and made to write another book. Sometimes I wish I was just a plain, ordinary newspaper man again.'" George Bernard Shaw: "To the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with the $35,000 Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment...
...Oliver Lodge stepped to a microphone and informed the British radio public that he had locked three women, a clergyman and two laymen in a room for the night. The room was an office of the Psychical Research Society. Sir Oliver asked the thinking public to think hard and write him letters later that evening, telling what the writers pictured the six prisoners doing. He gave a few hints?now the clergyman was holding up a playing card, now a layman was putting something funny on his head, now one of the ladies was exhibiting a picture. The prisoners were...
...Author. Emil Ludwig began to write plays at the age of 15 and, despite dabblings in law and business, continues to do so at 46. Quite naturally, he plunged into dramatic biographies to achieve his greatest works. Heroes?Goethe, Wagner, Bismarck and particularly Napoleon?inspire this understanding scholar, lift his pen out of the commonplace. Said he last summer: "My pet aversion is the historical novel, which falsifies history to meet the requirements of romantic fiction, and falsifies romance by trying to force it into the framework of history. My ideal is to produce a work which shall be strictly...