Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...story by Columnist Hugh Johnson calling for No More Aid to Britain. A cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt as a hockey goalie leaving his goal undefended to skate on Europe's thin ice. In other issues recently Commentator has denounced Dorothy Thompson, H. V. Kaltenborn (a onetime Commentator editor), Playwright Robert Sherwood, Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, Walter Lippmann, William Allen White, Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish, and PM's backer Marshall Field III as "Internationalists" conspiring to force the U. S. into...
...these diseased characters turns into a pretty fair murder mystery. On the evening of his first try at playacting, the novelist is found shot in his hotel bed room. Suspected are a whole stageful of sophisticates, including the novelist's mistress, a South American general, a shy French playwright, brilliantly acted by Austrian Oscar Karlweis, and a fat, macabre play director, who threatens just before the body is found: "I'll club him to death with his own truss." Crime Club members may get to thinking about the denouement and decide they were robbed. Less sophisticated mystery lovers...
Presumably this annoying character enjoys Playwright Shaw's sympathy, but the audience's is more apt to go to Actress Edith Atwater, who, as the WPA's lady, is one of the most desirable objects of the New Deal...
...suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally O'Neil, pretty, dark veteran of the silent cinema, is the girl unassisted by Playwright Carroll toward any clarity regarding her own or the Irish question...
Displaying a fresh nutbrown beard, plump, exuberant Author Christopher Morley played Pandarus, a wily, two-timing businessman of Troy, in the Roslyn, L. I. production of his play, The Trojan Horse. All authors (notably Chaucer and Shakespeare) who wrote about Troilus and Cressida, explained Playwright Morley, wore beards...