Word: dramatist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plays by the much-acclaimed young American dramatist Edward Albee will make up the program opening tomorrow evening at the Actors' Playhouse in the Hotel Bostonian...
Their names, and their achievements, will trail far behind those of the "most distinguished" novelist, historian, biographer, poet and dramatist of the year...
...statesman, Neutralist U Nu has sometimes professed to see little difference between the Communist powers and the West. But as a dramatist, he is as forthright a champion of democracy as any democrat could wish. Sample dialogue (between supporting characters...
Although Hahn wrote Ciboulette in 1923, he gave it an air of jaded elegance characteristic of turn-of-the-century Paris. The libretto, by Dramatist Robert de Flers, was kept deliberately naive-building ironic contrasts between text and music. The plot is constructed around a country girl, Ciboulette, who is in love with a count who is in turn dazzled by an actress. In Act III, the country girl becomes an actress herself and the count's eyes are opened to her beauty...
...screen dramatist, Renoir has few equals. He builds up the character of Batala, the malevolent publisher, through a series of short scenes in his private office. Salesmen, creditors and laundresses come in and out on various errands. Batala mulcts the men and seduces the women again and again with a kind of oily facility that amuses at first but disgusts in the end. The laundresses really began to bother me about the third time around. Day after day (which amounts to every ten minutes in the film) they bring him his shirts. The implication is that he changes his linen...