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Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...
...latest production of the intrepid New England Repertory Company is one of the best comedies yet written in America. S. N. Behrman's first produced play shows its fifteen years very little and is still Behrman at his best, far superior to the current "Pirate." It tells the story of an intelligent but impecunious writer who must choose between a woman with beauty but no money and another with money but no beauty. There are several hilarious situations, and the dialogue is brilliant. "The Second Man" will probably become a classic because of its superb handling...
Carol Wheeler, an excellent young actress, gives the best performance in the show, looking so lovely that, by Hollywood standards, she wouldn't have to act at all. John Rand '43 plays her amusingly inarticulate suitor. When these two are on the stage, the play is what Behrman intended it to be. Adele Thane does well in a thankless part, and the setting is unusually effective...
Even so, it is certainly worth a trip to Beacon Hill for a glimpse of Behrman and an eyeful of Carol Wheeler...
...always this way. With the talent of Eugene O'Neill, Robert Sherwood, S. N. Behrman, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, Thomas Wolfe, John Mason Brown, and John Dos Passos, Baker was able to blaze a spectacular trail. These names above are no dead listing of the college's contribution to a forgotten art. They signify the great effort that was expended, and then was suddenly curtailed...