Word: dramatists
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Holberg Noted Danish Dramatist...
...know whether Miss Macpherson is responsible for the battle scenes, but we fear the "love interests" in the photo-play must be laid to her charge. Everything that was miraculous and lovable in the character of Joan was not enough for Miss Macpherson. Not at all; she is a dramatist. So she has seen fit to force on the Maid of France a love affair with an English soldier. Shakespere, another dramatist, always sensitive to the public taste, took similar liberties with the character of Joan, but Miss Macpherson, being a lady, stopped short of that...
...dramatic discussion of the disadvantages of married life and proceeds to discuss them, as we have said, for three hours on a stretch. A more correct name for the play, we suggest, would be a sexual farce. In many respects, it is the most daring production of this dramatist, and has the inevitable touch of Shavian heroics and Shavian mysticism, as usual, in the last act. The excessively long and mystical monologue of the Mayoress seems at first to strike a false note, until one suddenly wakes up to the fact that it is really the play's manifesto...
...competition of the Dramatic Club closes next week and so far the number of undergraduate contributions has been disgracefully small. "Indifference" and "laziness" are oft quoted words, but they come perilously near the truth some times. Granted the ability and the time, what is the matter with the undergraduate dramatist...
Monsieur Jules Bois, the distinguished French dramatist, lecturer and poet, will give his last lecture in Emerson D this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject will be "La Litterateur et le Theatre." The lecture, which will be given in French, will be open to the public...