Word: dramatists
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...drudge with a dream of sudden wealth with which he can buy his mother a convertible settee and his girl a fancy wedding. Pale-faced, canyon-mouthed Ellen Drew, a onetime Hollywood soda clerk, was coached into a realistic likeness of a sugary, $18-a-week stenographer. A good dramatist, Sturges kept his characters credible by the simple but neglected technique of letting them act like people. For instance, when the Maxford House president is writing out Powell's contest check, he pauses to ask: "Do you spell your name...
...were: the Countess of Carnarvon, Vienna-born Dancer Tilly Losch; lean, stoop-shouldered Baron Edouard de Rothschild, retired head of the Paris branch of the international banking house (who declared over $1,000,000 in jewels to customs authorities), his wife and daughter; French Playwright Henri Bernstein; mystic Belgian Dramatist Count Maurice Maeterlinck, 77, his long white locks protected from the sea wind by a Göringesque hair net, his pretty, redheaded actress wife Renee, 45. Maeterlinck, who said he had nothing left but royalties from his play The Blue Bird, mourned: "I had my money in a bank...
Crowded aboard a little Indian tramp ship built to carry 180, nearly 1,500 refugees from Bordeaux landed safely in England, among them the Baron & Baroness Robert de Rothschild and French Dramatist Henry Bernstein, fleeing Nazi anti-Semitic terrors. Fear of Gestapo black lists brought aboard the same vessel two onetime Government officials: onetime Belgian Transport Minister Marcel-Henri Jaspar and onetime French Air Minister...
...forceful acting by Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne bolsters up the play, it is actually much more sincere than skillful. It is not Sherwood's art, but the audience's apprehensiveness, that gives "There Shall Be No Night" its grim interest. During periods of world upheaval, an inspired dramatist can sometimes be surpassed by a simple rewrite...
...winter have so far hampered movement, the German demand has greatly increased since war began. Almost exclusively agricultural, the Balkans depend in turn on Germany for industrial goods. Every Balkan nation lives in fear of some sort of revisionist aggression. Caught in a triangle more tragic than any dramatist could invent, Central Europe depends on Germany, fears Russia, looks to Italy for police protection. After the Finnish collapse, Scandinavia too fell under the strategic hegemony of the totalitarian powers...