Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those interested in things literary will be glad to learn of the intended visit of the famous French playwright, Brieux. He will attend a reception given in his honor by the Cercle Francais next Thursday night, and will deliver a lecture in Boston on "The Point of View of the Theatre," at the Alliance Francaise, Thursday afternoon...
Professor George P. Baker '87 will speak on "Granville Barker and his Late Shakespearean Productions" tomorrow afternoon at 4.30. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Crawford of Yale will talk on "The Modern Playwright and his Relation to the Newer Staging" and on Friday Mr. Thomas Wood Stevens, of the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh will speak. H. K. Moderwell '11, dramatic critic of the Transcript, will speak on Saturday afternoon and evening...
...Ballard's four acts, only the second and last succeed in getting the proper response from the audience; nor is this owing to any lack of situation, for the playwright is blessed with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police...
...play "scored." There were nine curtain calls after the third act, seven after the fourth: this the sincerer compliment to Mr. Biggers. The action needs quickening in a few places and the dialogue, compression; on the whole both would be creditable work at the hands of a playwright of long experience. There is, throughout, the "Biggers touch" which we have come to know in many delightful stories, deft character drawing, a humor that is original, refreshingly American...
This is Mr. Biggers's first offering as a playwright, though he has been for several years prominent in the literary and dramatic world. When in college Mr. Biggers was an editor of the Lampoon and the Advocate. Following his graduation in 1907, he accepted a position with the Bobbs-Merrill Publishing Company as a book-reviewer. He resigned this post to edit a humorous column for the Boston Traveller, in which capacity he was so successful that at the end of a year he was appointed dramatic critic for the paper. Last year he was a prize-winner...