Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theme: the amateur talent show. This time the chance for limited fame and limited fortune ($100) goes to would-be playwrights. On the opening show, after a performance of Robert Latta's Love Story, Moderator Marc Connelly and a panel of experts told the aspiring dramatist what was right and what was wrong with his play. Their criticism ranged from the vague ("I think it's a pretty good job") to the picayune ("No character should be made to say, 'Get out or I'll have you thrown out,' unless there's someone around...
Tutaev, an English dramatist, considers the play the best he has read since he came to this country...
...life of his father. And there was a second strain of Irish genius which can be developed to a higher pitch outside that country: the role of the stage-Irishman. Whenever that genius has submitted to the discipline of the theater, it has been irresistible. Behind Shaw the dramatist were Goldsmith, Sheridan and Wilde...
...musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...scene shifters: "WOR has one called Big City, another called Bigger City" One all-purpose bridge is called From Here to There Without Fireworks. Some bridges mix both scene and mood: Menacing Humor to Racetrack Background; Light Confusion -and Then Down the Stairs in a Hurry. If a radio dramatist likes music behind his words, Crosby found, one piece he can get is Background-Nostalgic-Tender into ye Rude Awakening. "Ye Rude Awakening, in this case, is simply a sad chord of a sort known in the trade as a stab . . . Not all stabs are bad news, though...