Word: dramatist
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...Hero. When the old lion arrived back in Paris by night train several years later, his illegitimate son Alexandre III, already a famous dramatist in his own right (Camille), waited to take him to his home. Instead, Dumas père demanded to be taken at once to the home of his friend Author-Critic Théophile Gautier. "But, Papa, it's so late," said Dumas fils. "And you've been traveling eight days." But they went, roused Gautier and gossiped till 4. Finally they headed for home on foot, and Dumas pere never stopped talking. When...
Poor, tortured Riccardo is the Hamlet-like hero-victim of Italian Novelist Alberto (Conjugal Love) Moravia's latest novel, A Ghost at Noon. To give his lovely but simple wife the comfortable life she wants, Riccardo has put aside his ambition to become a dramatist and taken on a movie job. He has even bought a car and is in debt. But his first script is a success, Producer Battista has given him a new and more important one to do, and the drab days in a furnished room in Rome seem well behind. It is typical of Author...
...also bring himself to toss a rhetorical posy: "Oh, Shaw, there is not your equal now! When shall we see your like again!" A roguish wordmonger, O'Casey peppers each page with Joycean puns and wordplays, e.g., Tea Deum, imaginot line, the rust was silence. Ever the dramatist, O'Casey savors his exit with ..a tender salute to old age and a last toast to life: "The sun has gone, dragging her gold and green garlands down . . . Soon it will be time to kiss the world goodbye. An old man now, who, in the nature of things, might...
...house in London's Chelsea section where several famous poems and plays were written, a plaque was unveiled, thus restoring to the playwright, after some 60 years of disgrace in England, a semblance of respectability. Its terse inscription: "Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, wit and dramatist, lived here." On hand were Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland (who recently described his inherited stigma in Son of Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind...
...December convention in Los Angeles, he will demand Reuther's resignation as president either of the C.I.O. or of the United Auto Workers, his basic source of strength. Reuther is not likely to give up either job peacefully. Despite last week's second-act sag, Dramatist McDonald seemed set on staging a crashing climax...