Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOSEPH Wood Krutch is doubly qualified to write this interesting and penetrating analysis of the development of our native drama in the past two decades; he is a professor of English at Columbia University and drama critic of "The Nation." In this latter capacity, he has long been known as one of the soundest and most intelligent critics practicing the craft...
Efforts of the Irish nation to tame itself and settle down climaxed at Dublin last week with tense drama in the Dail. Everyone remembers how after World War I the untamed, scraggly-haired, wild-eyed figure of Eamon de Valera barnstormed among Irish groups all over the U. S., spouting treason to George V, proclaiming himself "President of the Irish Republic" and passing the hat for its "Irish Republican Army," whose stalwarts the British Government treated as "common criminals, murderers and cutthroats." Today, tame and respected Eamon de Valera is a shrewd conciliator of Great Britain and a pillar...
Then he galloped through a foam-flecked drama of the range country calculated to make Autry votaries champ their Double Mint in double-quick time...
Three days later, Comedienne Mackaye, having lived more drama than most actresses act, died. At her bedside were Husband Paul Kelly, Daughter Valerie Raymond...
...present Broadway season has been nothing much to brag about. It has produced some very good entertainment, no good serious drama, much bad playwrighting. Last week the casualties were heavy. First, English Playwright J. B. Priestley went to the block for When We Are Married, a stale joke protracted into a three-act play. Next, Irish Playwright Paul Vincent Carroll, after distinguishing himself with Shadow and Substance and The White Steed, mounted the scaffold for Kindred, a turgid work neither poetic nor rational. Finally, U. S. Playwright Gustav Eckstein was garroted for Christmas Eve, a confused tale of family life...