Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly 5,000 hours of listening, he in effect wrote Lillian Roth's I'll Cry Tomorrow, Diana Barrymore's Too Much, Too Soon and Sheilah Graham's Beloved Infidel. All three were bestsellers and earned more than $250,000 for 51-year-old Co-Author Frank (married, two children). Whatever he gets from working up the proper empathy with Zsa Zsa, he will deserve every cent...
...There are three things which are real," Indian-Irish Author Aubrey Menen once wrote, "God, human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...
With this story and with countless others, Sam Behrman--playwright, author and raconteur--has amused and entertained his Kirkland House hosts this past week. His Evening with S.N. Behrman ("I feel like Beatrice Lillie") in the Junior Common Room Monday night, was the highlight of a "marvelous, but exhausting" week in Cambridge--a week of pre-dinner sherry, after-dinner brandy, and constant conversation...
...once in the "serious" theatre, the play is not the thing. The thing is that Boston has a permanent repertory company, and a fine one. It is gratifying that a good production of Six Characters in Search of an Author is to be found at the Wilbur; but it is greatly exciting that for several months, and, with any luck, for many years, a series of good and great plays, adventurously chosen and well performed, will be constantly on view in Boston. Congratulations to Stephen Aaron '57, John Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56, the managing directors of the company...
...obsession with the illusiveness of reality, and the peculiar sort of structure generated by this obsession, give the author a chance to display his marvelous dexterity in contriving all sorts of ironies and subtleties and stage effects out of the relation between Characters and Actors. He is an expert in gimmickry--indeed, the whole play is really a gimmick, a shell game with reality as the pea. Since he is only a clever intellectual prestidigitator, Pirandello may not deserve his exalted reputation as a dramatic master. But he is a strikingly individual play-wright, and in his way a brilliant...