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Born. To Basil Dean, co-dramatist with Margaret Kennedy of The Constant Nymph (TIME, Dec. 20), and Mrs. Dean (onetime Lady Mercy Greville, daughter of the Dowager Countess of Warwick) ; a daughter (9 Ib.) in London. Playwright Dean cabled a wish she should be named Tessa, after the heroine of the play...
...After Dramatists Page, Gerard, Tumulty, House, comes Dramatist David Franklin Houston, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of Agriculture; thereafter (1920-21) Secretary of the Treasury, starring War President Wilson. Evidence appears that Secretary Houston stood high in the intimacy of the chief actor whom he served; was heard with respect above other voices at rehearsals; was telephoned for counsel in the night watches, after at least one performance...
...awarded the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.* Said I, slyly: 'I suppose it is because I wrote nothing that year.' My secretary believes the prize is for my play, Saint Joan, written in 1923. It is generally assumed that the award is made for my work as dramatist, in which I claim to be the superior of Shakespeare. But I spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist. I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco...
Behind the slim plot, through long-drawn-out dialogue, Italian Dramatist Pirandello's philosophy of reality struggles to reveal itself. Facts are not reality, are merest illusions of the senses. Fiction of the imaginative mind is the only true reality. Hence the pity of it: a poor girl torn out of her last shred of beauty, revealed even in death, a sordid fact...
...Dramatist Turai and Collaborator Man sky have taken under their aging wings young Albert Adam (Edward Crandall), composer, in love with Prima Donna Ilona Szabo (Catherine Dale Owen). At a houseparty, the three gentlemen arrive unannounced, are ushered into the room adjacent to the beloved prima donna's. Through the thin wall pierce unfortunate snatches of conversation-"One little kiss," "All right, you may kiss me," "How soft, round, velvety," "Well, you don't have to bite." The voice of the fair Ilona! The voice of Actor Almady! Young Albert is heartbroken, will tear up the music inspired...