Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THESE two books show that Mr. Auden's poetic talent is still prolific, but its direction is as confused as ever. The first is a play, the prose passages of which are written by Mr. Isherwood, a young British author who has won some fame as translator of Bandelaire's...
Editor-in-chief of Liberty and adviser to many another of the lucrative, mass-appealing, Macfadden Magazines* is a remarkable character named Charles Fulton Oursler. A former law clerk and Baltimore reporter, Mr. Oursler has written a successful melodrama (The Spider), a number of novels, a series of detective stories...
In order to keep the school on a realistic basis, the visiting officials will advise the faculty on such questions as the scope of the curriculum, the detailed courses, the most effective methods of instruction, the nature of the instructional data, and the research program, it was explained. The exploratory...
A good play is rarely so constructed that one character monopolizes audience attention. When an actress reaches Miss Cornell's stature, however, her public demands that she appear in starring vehicles. Among the best known of Miss Cornell's earlier plays are such bravura works as The Green...
Behind Red Lights (by Samuel Shipman & Beth Brown; Jack Curtis, producer) is a melodrama based on the mechanics of organized harlotry as illumined in the Manhattan trial of a squint-eyed vice tycoon named Charles ("Lucky'') Lucania (TIME, June 15). One character definitely not drawn from the Lucania...