American playwrights of today / by Burns Mantle. - New York : Dodd, Mead & co. 1930.

Tipologia

monografia

Pubblicazione

New York : Dodd, Mead & co. 1930

Descrizione fisica

X, 324 p. ; 20 cm.

Nota generale

Contiene: The honor group: Eugene O'Neill, George Kelly, Sidney Howard, Paul, Green, Owen Davis, Hatcher Hughes, Zona Gale, Jesse Lynch Williams; Two potential medalists: Maxwell Anderson, Philip Barry; Three who are collaborators: George Abbott, George Kaufman, Mare Connelly; Dramatists and melodramatists: Channing Pollock, Bayard Veiller, Willard Mack, Philip Dunning, Rachel Crothers, William Hurlbut, Zoe Akins, Samuel Shipman; The lighter touch: Robert Emmet Sherwood, George M. Cohan, Edgar Selwyn, James Forbes, Frank Craven, A. E. Thomas, Avery Hopwood, George Middleton, Thompson Buchanan, Edward Childs Carpenter. New blood: Arthur Richman, Elmer Rice, James Gleason, Laurence Stallings, John Colton, Lula Vollmer, Vincent Lawrence, Lewis Beach, The Nugents, Maurine Watkins, Gilbert Emery, Patrick Kearney, Kenyon Nicholson, Harry Wagstaff Gribble; Novelist and the drama: Rupert Hughes, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Lee Wilson Dodd, Louis Anspacher, Earl Derr Biggers; Linking past and present: David Belasco; The near veterans: Winchell Smith, Harriet Ford and Harvey O'Higgins, Jules Eckert Goodman and Montague Glass, John and Anita Loos Emerson, Philip Bartholomae; A salaam to the past: In memory of the foundation layers, Augustus Thomas, Clyde Fitch, Charles H. Hoyt, etc.; We also have with us: A list of playwrights who have figured with some prominence in the immediate past and who give promise of continuing in the competition for some time to come

Paese di pubblicazione

Stati Uniti

Lingua del testo

Inglese

Soggetto

Scrittori teatrali - Stati Uniti d'America - Sec. 20.

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