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Fanny (book by S. N. Behrman & Joshua Logan, based on a trilogy by Marcel Pagnol; music and lyrics by Harold Rome) might have come off far better had it been done on a shoestring. For its very Gallic story of the Marseille waterfront-of a young girl who finds herself pregnant after her sea-crazed lover sails away, and of her marriage to a widower who loves her and craves a child-is a ticklish compound of sentiment and hard sense, of ruefulness and worldliness, that requires delicately simple treatment. As a play enfolded in music, it could be both...
Fanny (Marcel Pagnol's plays Marius, Fanny and Cesar, adapted as a musical by S.N. Behrman, Josh Logan and Harold J. Rome) stars Ezio Pinza and Walter Slezak, opens Nov. 4 under Logan's direction...
Wisecracking Pianist Oscar Levant, 47. once described by Playwright S. N. Behrman as "a character who, if he did not exist, could not be imagined," had a headline-making spat with his wife June in Beverly Hills. June walked out. Figuring that she had gone home to mother. Oscar tried to phone her there, was told by the local operator that the line was busy and that he would have to wait half an hour. Cried Oscar: "In half an hour I'll be dead!" Said the operator, soothingly: "Hold on. I'll help...
...dominated then certainly permeated by Harvard graduates. A partial list of the best known include playwrights Owen Davis '94, Percy McKaye '97, Hermann Hagerdorn '07, Edward Sheldon '03, Sidney Howard, Sp '14-'15, Eugene O'Neill, Sp '14-'15, S. N. Behrman '16, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Philip Barry Gr '19-'20; critics H. T. Parker '90, Van Wyck Brooks '08, Heywood Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald Oenslager '23; actors and actresses Walter Hampden '97, Osgood Perkins...
Fortunately, Behrman's wit never deserts the play, and even when his imagination falters, Jane is quite entertaining. Nevertheless, richly furnished with epigram and polished style, Behrman's drawing room still looks bare without a plot...