Word: dramatist
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Mourned Jean Cocteau, poet, dramatist and conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground...
...major faults of "Mourning Becomes Electra" are its length and its unrelieved intensity. One either takes O'Neill on his own terms or doesn't, but anyone with a glimmer of affection for America's Great Dramatist should enjoy this, his supreme theatrical achievement. It has certainly been provided with the best in direction, photography, and period atmosphere...
Tennist Bill Tilden turned dramatist with a play about a mental-case mother, a kidnaped child and a brother-sister love affair. Called New Shoes, it opened in Los Angeles. The Times pronounced it "malodorous, but. . . delicate enough and . . . well written...
...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...
Federico GARCíA Lorca was a versatile Spaniard, a painter, musician, actor and dramatist as well as a poet. Since his death his reputation has continued to grow. Like most reputations, it has an element of the factitious. Lorca took no part in the Spanish republican movement, far less in the revolutionary uprising of the Left. He resented the political demonstrations that were made in Barcelona in 1935 on the occasion of one of his plays. Inevitably, however, Lorca's assassination made him a hero and a martyr of the republic. Whether he knew...