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...general tone in the theater was gay: still screening rather than mirroring the war, Broadway clicked with only one world-minded play, A Bell for Adano. One possible reason was the silence of the better serious dramatists-Robert E. Sherwood, Lillian Hellman, Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Clifford Odets, Elmer Rice. There was no good melodrama, either...
Jacobowsky and the Colonel (adapted by S. N. Behrman from a play by Franz Werfel; produced by the Theater Guild in association with Jack H. Skirball) uses one of the grimmest moments of the war-the fall of France-for half-satiric, half-fantastic comedy. Its comic thesis is that flight from the Nazis makes strange carfellows. A swaggering, snooty Polish colonel with "a perfect 15th-Century mind" (well played by Louis Calhern) and a rueful, humorous, clever Jewish refugee (delightfully played by Oscar Karlweis) both have to bolt from Paris on the run. The colonel cannot find...
Miss Arleen Scheer of New York and Tech 5th Grade Theodore B. Edelstein were married in the Tree of Life Temple in New York. Both Mrs. Edelstein and Mrs. Behrman are continuing to live in New York...
...Harold D. Behrman was married to Miss Grace Katz of New York in Menora Temple, Brooklyn. Ushers at the ceremony included Pfc. Morris Fell, Pfc. Albert Greenwald and Pfc. Arnold Caplan, all of Company A, as well as Mr. Leo Schumer, a recent alumnus. Brooklyn College was the original scene of the Behrman romance...
Ilka Chase, an actor on the stage screen and radio, as well as author of a dubious funny book, "Past Imperfect," opened last night at Brattle Hall in a revival of S. N. Behrman's comedy "Biography." Not as good as his other comedies, which include "No Time for Comedy," the play is the story of a successful career woman, a painter, and her decision to write her life story for a national magazine...