Stark Young (1881-1963) was a drama critic, editor, translator, painter, playwright, and novelist. Stark Young was born in Como, Mississippi, on October 11, 1881, the son of a physician in a family which traced its ancestry in the United States back to...

Stark Young 's worldview was the result of the blending of a perfectly provincial childhood and a remarkably cosmopolitan early manhood. His father, Alfred Alexander Young, was a Como, Mississippi, physician who had ridden with Gen. Nathan Bedford...

Shortly after Stark Young 's death, a group of people primarily from the New York theatrical world gathered at the Morosco Theatre to pay tribute to him as the best twentieth-century critic of the New York stage. Linked with an ephemeral medium, the...

The parodists have it wrong. They’ve turned the phrase most identified with Greta Garbo—“I want to be alone”—into something that might have issued from Bela Lugosi. Garbo did not pronounce the “w” as a “v” (she says “want,” not “vant”); she did not declaim those...