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...author is a "promising playwright." He has the knack of making a scene move, however trifling its import. He is not yet the biographer of Charming People, the talent that his predecessor, Phillip Jerome Quinn Barry, developed so neatly in the Harvard atmosphere, but he can place words, phrases and pronouncements into the mouths of his actors and make them sound like life. By George Holland "Boston Evening American...
...editors have secured an imposing list of talent to enrich their little brain child. There are bawdy cartoons by the leading New Yorker and Esquire artists, articles by Philip Wylie, Rex Stout, and poems by William Rose Benet, Leonard Bacon and Ogden Nash; and one act plays by Hervey Allen and Marc Connelly. The subject matter runs the gamut of the privy and bedroom school of expression...
...broadcaster's net receipts). Warner Brothers says that it asks too little. ASCAP's President Gene Buck stated last week that all the important songwriters were bound personally to the Society by new five-year contracts, that Warner Brothers' experiment would depend on finding new talent. But ASCAP was obviously perturbed. Its strength has been its ability to dictate terms without thought of rivalry. An ASCAP rival is what Radio has long been wanting...
...from regions separated from the Eastern colleges by expensive distances and naturally within the orbit of local or State universities. The new scholarships will be a continuation and broadening of the prize fellowships already open to Middle Westerners, the first fruits of Dr. Conant's journey in search of talent--genius preferred...
...rapidly accelerating movement which aims to breathe the spark of living production into the library-bound theatre of Henrik Ibsen made its first local manifestation last week when Eva Le Gallienne presented "Rosmersholm." Now the eminent Alla Nazimova has added the bright flame of her talent to this Ibsen revivification by offering "Ghosts" for a two weeks run at the Colonial Theatre. The fame of the work renders superfluous any detailed analysis of its individual characteristics. A more interesting question is that of Ibsen's place in the modern theatre as revealed in this excellent production...