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These are but a few of the mystified queries which kept the telephone at the Dramatic Club offices busy all day yesterday as the result of a misstatement made in yesterday morning's CRIMSON to the effect that Karl Kapek, famous Bohemian playwright, would read his play "The Makropulos Affair" at Paine Hall in the Music Building this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
Augustus Thomas, playwright, "theatre Tsar," who once served as a page boy in the U. S. House of Representatives, injected his personality into politics last week by saying...
Sued for Divorce. Daisy Kennedy, a violinist, by her husband, Benno Moiseiwitsch, the pianist. Moiseiwitsch named as co-respondent John Drinkwater, famed playwright...
...wooer can play right into his rival's hands. Despite its occasional irony, the play seems to be smitten with awe at moving among elegant folks in grand surroundings. With a first act that sparkles and others that go diminuendo, Miss Zoë Akins remains the broad-jumping playwright. She leaps off with a great rush, then loses momentum. Elsie Ferguson recovers in the courtesan role the warm, stirring undercurrent of her earlier acting. Throwing off the cataleptic spell of the cinema, she no longer seems to be waiting for a closeup. Except for a farewell scene, Sidney Blackmer...
...doughboy, returned to his granite New England, set fire to a barn out of heady spite. The cinema producer has the arson committed purely by accident, obviously to keep the censor from snaking a reproving finger. What was good enough to win the Pulitzer prize for 1922 for Playwright Davis is not good enough to get past the screen Cerberus. Thus the ne'er-do-well of the play, discontented with his frigidly austere environment, is apotheosized in the films into a pretty good boy, much put upon for mocking local narrowness. The shiftless youth who was saved...