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...imperious girl ("Do all these people belong to me?"), she was also slim, proud, and pretty. The French dramatist Edmond Rostand called her "The little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips...
...could took more like a play-Wright than Simonov, the prize, winning dramatist. Tall and filled-out, with slicked hair and a small moustache, he relaxed in his custom-looking gray flanuels and checked sport jacket. Both smoked at undernourished-looking cigars, spoke through interpreters (though Ehrenburg threw in some French for spice...
...John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin'"), Irish critic-dramatist whose John Ferguson was a U.S. success in 1919, but whose Boyd's Daughter ran only three Broadway performances in 1940, told a Belfast lecture audience that the British way of life was still tops. "I say that, remembering America," said he. "I have been there twice, and I would rather be in jail in this country than free in America...
...humorist (My World-and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times), was admitted to the dusty, plushy National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Also elevated: versifying Information Pleaser Franklin Pierce Adams, meticulous Poet Wallace Stevens (Harmonium), rumpled, ever-ready Poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin (Maine Ballads), left-winging Dramatist Lillian Hellman (Watch on the Rhine), New York Times Columnist Simeon Strunsky (Topics of The Times...
Though fully aware of her theatrical inexperience, Novelist Lillian Smith decided to dramatize Strange Fruit herself for fear that an "outside dramatist" would misrepresent the book. Says she: "I knew it would have been easy to make a racial Romeo and Juliet out of it ... I wanted a panoramic picture of human beings-white and colored-trapped by the whole mechanism of segregation. I broke a great many rules but I knew what rules I was breaking . . . I'm proud of it ... I wouldn't change a word...