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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Season on Broadway | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tender into Rude Awakening | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

Final judges of the contest are John Steinbeck, author: Charles M. Underhill '30, program director of CBS Television Network, and Donald Davis, dramatist, screen writer, and CBS-TV producer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CBS TV Writing Contest Asks For Original Dramas | 2/8/1950 | See Source »

...three sinners are a coward, a lesbian, and a nymphomaniacal infanticide. It's a rich enough combination for any dramatist to work with, and Mr. Sartre, fortunately, does not exploit the sensational aspects of his characters. In fact, the three people are not in Hell for being a coward, a Lesbian, or a nymphomaniac...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 12/3/1949 | See Source »

Though Bernard Shaw has called Strindberg "the only genuine Shakespeare modern dramatist," there is no need to go to the Plymouth in either a devotional or dutiful attitude. What you will see is a bitter, provocative, misogynic drama matched with a trenchant performance...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

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