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...Jimmy Durance, and ranging from Cole Porter tunes to an all-Negro Carmen-are already set, scheduled, or signed for. There will be more vaudeville. There will be comedies by Lindsay & Grouse (the adapters of Life With Father), John Van Druten, Philip Barry (starring Katharine Hepburn), S. N. Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME...
...testing in workshop productions. Harvard did not agree, so Baker took his Workshop to Radcliffe and developed it there until the skeptical parent was finally convinced in 1913. Stage was no longer a child. Baker modestly taught drama to such budding pupils as Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, S. N. Behrman, George Abbott and Eugene O'Neill, when, in 1924, Edward S. Harkness offered to donate a completely equipped auditorium to the University. This time the parent was definite. Stage should be seen and not heard; taught and not acted. Harkness and Baker were told by President Lowell that "The drama...
During his period as professor of Playwrighting at Harvard he established the famous "47 Workshop," which produced such American greats as Philip Barry, the late Sidney Howard, S. N. Behrman, George Abbott, and, top of the crop, O'Neill. To produce the plays of these and his other students, "G.P." founded the Harvard Dramatic Club...
...Talley Method (by S. N. Behrman, produced by The Playwrights' Co.). Playwright Behrman is one of the most adult living playwrights and his new seriocomedy tackles a grown-up theme-the fact that the social achievements of the human race are so far behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability...
...when his emotions get the better of his rigidity and, standing ramrod straight, he tells his fiancée: "I love you." Unfortunately the finely conceived and acted doctor is surrounded by drama that wavers uncertainly between comedy and solemnity. The comedy, as often with Behrman, tends to be forced, brittle. The solemnity isn't pointed up. And Ina Claire, far from the glittering kind of role that made her name, seems wooden and routine...