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Although there is a large measure of truth in his remarks, this critic, who happens to be Basil MacDonald Hastings, the playwright, may possibly be a trifle severe. Certainly, if what he says is so, it is fortunate for the average American's sense or national pride that he has confined his slings and arrows to his own country. Deterred, no doubt, by a press or other material, he has so far refrained from even mentioning the grim realists of the American school, who have made their happy hunting ground the fancied dullness of the Middle West...
...killed himself because of his dad, and she resents it.) On the verge of his trial, the son threatens to jump his bail, and the mother kills herself, with some notion of thus straightening out everything. She leaves a trust fund to her son to make restitution. Playwright, Abby Merchant, seems optimistic about the young man's reformation, in spite of having moulded his character herself. The audience is pessimistic...
...Goose Hangs High. Regarding the younger generation there seem to be only two attitudes. You must be either a pessimist or a chauvinist. Playwright Lewis Beach is the latter...
...student in a drama department of a woman's club gets very far without encountering the name of Percy MacKaye. He was America's most brilliant poet-playwright at a very young age. He is still that. America has no others; but Mr. MacKaye has never written a play which can touch his earliest efforts. The Canterbury Pilgrims and The Scarecrow remain his finest achievements. Too early he was entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success...
MacKaye was born in Manhattan, although he tells me that his family moved to Brattleboro shortly after, where his playwright father worked in the house later occupied by Kipling. He studied at Harvard and in Europe. He traveled widely. He taught and lectured. He has planned pageants such as Caliban. He has written any num-ber of odes for this and that celebration. He has written as ambitious a narrative poem as Dogtown Common. Two of his books have become operas and both have been sung by major organizations. Now he has buried himself in the Kentucky mountains where, with...