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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...merely a nice old man with ideas. And the criminals in their turn, as they one by one fall under the healer's magic spell, never seem to do more than move the plot toward the inevitable happy ending. George Cohan has written too many musical comedies to write a convincing play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/28/1923 | See Source »

Fifty-five men answered the call for editorial candidates, of, which ten will be retained on the board at the end of the competition. Assignments for write-ups were given by the chairman, to be handed in on Friday, when the first cut in the competition will be made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FRESHMAN RED BOOK COMPETITIONS UNDER WAY | 3/27/1923 | See Source »

Barnum Was Right.?Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Nights | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...thought which he considers worth putting on paper. That is why his volumes of poetry appear so rarely. The Selected Poems this spring will be the first since Mountain Interval in 1916. Robert Frost's poetry is essentially dramatic. It is inevitable for him some day to write a full length play. He has already done short ones. He knows that he is a dramatist, but it is characteristic of him that he will write four or five plays in his mind before a word of one reaches paper. " I like to entertain ideas," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Robert Frost | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...wrote "Damned"? We give it up, but we did read the book. You will enjoy speculating as to who had the nerve and the knowledge to write so interesting, so arresting, so amazing a book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRIEF BITS ABOUT BOOKS | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

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