Word: dramatists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite lyrical about the University of North Carolina," exclaims Howard Mumford Jones, who taught at Chapel Hill from 1925 to 1930; "they're really doing things down there." At Chapel Hill, Jones met Paul Green, the Carolina dramatist; halfway through a performance of Green's "The Field God," in which Jones' daughter took part, Green stalked up to him and chortled: "Gawd ain't this a folk play, it's got hog-guts, killin' 'n everythin' bloody." Professor Jones will vehemently deny any charges that he ever wrote any folk drama...
...Poet and dramatist, student of French culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...
Franklin Roosevelt, with his great sense of historical drama, had again created history with a dramatist's breath-taking stroke. No President of the U.S. since Abraham Lincoln had ever visited a battle theater. No President had ever left the U.S. in wartime. None had ever been to Africa. None had ever traveled in an airplane. Now came Franklin Roosevelt, 32nd President of the U.S., to shatter all four precedents at once...
...Norman Corwin, topflight U.S. radio dramatist, went to England last summer to try something that U.S. radio had not done before. He wanted to explain England to Americans by short-waving his dramatized observations of the English. Sunspots and short-wave incorrigibility spoiled U.S. reception of four of his seven broadcasts from Britain. Last week, at home under the happier auspices of U.S. medium wave, Corwin tried again-and scored...
Author of The Twenty-Second Letter is CBS's most promising young dramatist, 27-year-old Ranald R. MacDougall. A former Western Union messenger, Florida fisherman (for food, not fun) and Radio City Music Hall usher, MacDougall started writing continuity for NBC in 1936, also did documentary programs on Americana for BBC. Free-lancing since last March, he persuaded Norman Corwin to let him write two This Is War programs. Then CBS signed...