Word: playright
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...story has the strong smell of dreary sordidness. Degeneration is the theme; a playright and his actress wife, the characters. The playwright will not cheapen his work to pander to the petty tastes of the masses whose francs support the Theatre. He lives on the earnings of his wife. To gain food and clothing for him, she sells herself to a succession of stage-door libertines. He gets the food and clothes. Finally he turns to a variety of unpleasant activities, brings the curtain down by strangling his wife in drunken frenzy...
Tonight at 8.20 in the Copley-Plaza Ballroom, Lord Dunsany will lecture on "My Own Lands," the imaginative countries of his plays, and give a reading of his own works. This marks the first appearance in Boston of the noted Irish playright, and, though it will be impossible for him to lecture at the University on this visit, efforts are now being made to secure him for later in the year when he returns to New England...