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...office outlook for Anne of the Thousand Days yanks the ten-year-old Playwrights' Company out of a slump that had threatened to end a unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...
Nothing, it seemed. The first season they rang up three hits: Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Anderson's Knickerbocker Holiday, Behrman's No Time for Comedy. When things looked dark in 1945, Rice's Dream Girl kept the group going...
...remember in second-year Latin the story about Hercules that began: "Hercules was the son of the mortal maiden Alkmena who was visited by the God Jupiter?" That left a lot unsaid. M. Giradoux (through his translator S. N. Behrman) now says the rest. The fact that he really has little to say and says it with too many words does not particularly matter. It is a talky play, but the talk is nimble. The story itself is simple, little more than an extended practical joke. There are no memorable lines or take-home gags; it is rather an exercise...
This fall the Harvard Dramatic Club will produce S. N. Behrman's translation of "Amphitryon 38." The HDC's president has described the play as "gaggy and sexy," and it is all that. It is also first-class high comedy. And it is a play that has two terrific star parts--and by terrific I mean long and difficult, but striking when played well...
...rival Dramatic Club is currently working on "Amphitryon 38," a modern French comedy translated into English by S. N. Behrman...