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When he went into Manhattan supreme court last week to ask annulment of his marriage, middle-aged (51) Dramatist Laurence S. Liebson portrayed himself as a man supremely bilked by the wiles of a perfumed woman. Mrs. Doraine Van Roos DuPont Liebson, he complained, had led him to believe, during six delightfully dazed months of courtship, that "she was a maiden of 26." But after the wedding last February, he discovered that she was nearer 48, that she had a married daughter-and two grandchildren...
Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, by George Bernard Shaw (Arms and the Man, Candida, etc.) (June 18, 1898): "The fault of Shaw . . . is his lack of poetry . . . and the critic or satirist who is not a bit of a poet cannot reasonably hope to win renown as a dramatist...
...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...