Word: behrman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...screen version of S. N. Behrman's "Biography" fails to make its point as strongly as did the play. Its softened portrayal of an intolerant young man who is made to see the indiscretion of his attitude by an older woman who has the opposite viewpoint of life, leaves the audience either to ferret out the real meaning of the episode or to take it as merely an entertaining picture. Robert Montgomery is happily less rambunctious than usual and Ann Harding while still sweet, is not nauseatingly...
Considerably dressed down for the cinema audience and even with its name changed. "Biography," that stage success of last year now appears as "Biography of a Bachelor Girl." Much of S. N. Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue...
...Theatre Guild has brought Jane Cowl and John Halliday to the Plymouth this week in "Rain From Heaven," as the second play of its Boston Subscription Season. The play was written by S. N. Behrman, from whose pen came last season's success, "Biography." Those who expected a similar play, however, would have been disappointed, for this new work is something of a comedy at times and at others is poignant drama. But it is highly entertaining and it is good drama...
...brings minuscule Ernest Truex and fluttery Spring Byington into the organization for the first time. Miss Powell is better known for her novels (She Walks in Beauty) than for her dramatic works (Big Night). And she is pitiably outclassed when compared to such Guild comic artists as S. N. Behrman, Ferenc Molnar and George Bernard Shaw. Although Jig Saw is utterly without significance and woefully short on plot, it abounds in witty if ungermane lines...
Without apparent effort, S. N. Behrman has created the most amusing comedy that has come to Boston in many years. He hasn't satirized the life of an artist, nor has he burlesqued it. Yet without relying on low comedy or the pseudo-intellectual repartee of Noel Coward, which evokes laughter from the "sophisticated,"--an obnoxious word--he has patterned a delightful play around a series of commonplace situations. His trick--I shouldn't use the word, for Mr. Behrman is more experienced than the majority of playwrights whose characters fluctuate according to their whims--more accurately, his method...