Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...performance, the peculiarly subtle nature of the transition from the broad comedy of the opening to the idealistic tragedy of the close, the very beauty of the lines in the long speeches of the last act, all made the undertaking a hazardous one for both company and playwright...
...Savery contributes an interesting account of "Clyde Fitch, the Man and Playwright," which seems to be based on personal acquaintance with Mr. Fitch, and helps in the understanding of his work. Mr. Lippmann writes earnestly, though somewhat extravagantly, "In Defence of the Suffragettes." Mr. Douglas gives some effective pictures of incidents in the service of a "rookie" in the recent war games of the Massachusetts militia. Mr. Snedeker, in his "Pity Women," shows power to portray persons vividly and to convey a sense of sadness. Professor Neilson's appreciation of Mr. Hagedorn's important volume "A Troop of the Guard...
...first suitable opportunity for the members of the University to show their appreciation for the work of Harvard's youngest successful playwright comes next Tuesday night. Mrs. Fiske will appear in "Salvation Nell," by E. B. Sheldon '08, at the Majestic Theatre next week, and on the second night of the engagement a sufficient number of seats have been reserved for all Harvard men who wish to attend. It is fitting for the Dramatic Club to take charge of this welcome for its founder and first president, and we feel sure that a large number of undergraduates will join...
...Edward Sheldon, the author of 'Salvation Nell,' in which Mrs. Fiske made her appearance at the Hackett Theatre, is only 23 years old. Ten years hence, when he has become a still more successful and well-seasoned playwright, he will probably stand abashed at the remembrance of all he did and dared in his maiden effort. For however much traditions may be shocked and polite conventionalities shattered, the fact must go on record that this boy from Harvard, backed only by the courage of his own convictions, and with Mrs. Fiske as both actress and stage manageress standing...
...sees only the sublime doggedness of their one highest ideal-resisting compromise. The play in short sets one thinking, sets one contemplating a great ungathered people's fate as well at its own as at others' hands. Mr. Davis has proved himself behind certain crudities of technique, a playwright of power...