Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago of the late Playwright Eugene O'Neill. A few years before he died in 1953, O'Neill was sent a photograph of his bygone birthplace, then a family hotel, since razed. In his thank-you note, the prize-laden (a Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished by licking four cops...
...noted dramatist Denis Johnston concluded the Summer School's series of three drama lectures last Thursday night. Speaking in Allston Burr Hall, he gave his views on "The Dramatist in the Theatre." Johnston, currently professor of English at Mt. Holyoke, gained much of his theatrical experience at the Abbey Theatre in Ireland under the guiding genius of William Butler Yeats...
...novelist (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and dramatist (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People), Irwin Shaw has set no worlds afire. But there are few American writers who can match him for consistent readability and excitement in the field of the short story. His famous The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) says nearly all that there is to say about urban love; his vengeful Sailor Off the Bremen, after 18 years, is still powerful enough to make a reader wince. This new collection never quite reaches the same heights, but is similarly concerned with love and adventure, is written...
...never been officially revealed, but art historians now believe that the redhead who appears as a flaming, enigmatic image throughout Munch's work was a young Norwegian girl named Dagney Juell. She was Munch's model in Berlin before she moved over to live with Swedish Dramatist August Strindberg, finally married the best friend of both men, Polish Poet Stanislas Przybyszewski. One of Munch's most powerful paintings of the redhead was Jeatiousy, in which he depicted her as a salacious wanton, with an enigmatic, glowering father at left. Between the two, man-depicted as Poet Przybyszewski...
Last week the world got its first inkling of what Dramatist O'Neill was up to in his sprawling series. Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, which gave the first performance last year of Long Day's Journey, gave the first performance of A Touch of the Poet, the play O'Neill had intended to start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near...