Word: behrmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Time For Comedy (by S. N. Behrman; produced by Katharine Cornell and the Playwrights Co.) brought Katharine Cornell triumphantly back to Broadway after a two years' absence-in the first full comedy role of her career...
...Cowboy and the Lady (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was written by Leo McCary, Frank R. Adams, Frederick Lonsdale, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell, Howard Estabrook, Robert Ardrey, Eddie Moran. John Emerson, Anita Loos, Frank Ryan, Gene Fowler, Robert Riskin, Richard Connell, Sonya Levien, and S. N. Behrman-in relays as their predecessors fell by the wayside...
...Lincoln in Illinois (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by the Playwrights' Company). First production of the five playwrights (Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood) who last season decided to form an independent producing unit, Abe Lincoln in Illinois should see them triumphantly launched. An episodic story of Lincoln from his early Ann Rutledge days to his election as President, it once more demonstrates the magic of the Great Emancipator's personality...
Last week Broadway producers got their worst smack in the face in years. Five major playwrights-Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice-curtly announced that they were going into business for themselves, as a group...
...apparent disposition to classify has lead S. N. Behrman to call his new play, "Wine of Choice," a comedy. Its only claim to that category is that it is not sublimely tragic. It is certainly not funny; its neatly turned phrases and condensed, polished dialogue are not calculated to make it that. Nor is it entertaining or satisfying; it confirms no one in his preconceptions. Rather is it irritating social comment with a few dramatic moments carelessly thrown...