Word: druten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixpence (by John van Druten) is well intended and very ill contrived. The author of The Voice of the Turtle is frankly preaching man's need for some kind of faith. But in the very act of bringing the light, the dramatist in van Druten himself has lost his way. I've Got Sixpence is never persuasive and only fitfully lively...
Inadequate though it is, the straight preaching in I've Got Sixpence merits greater respect than the more entertaining episodes where Playwright van Druten strives to be both high-minded and high-spirited. Where Eliot's cocktail-party frivolities have real emblematic force, much that is entertaining in I've Got Sixpence goes out too directly for laughs. In an extremely serious scene where the writer describes how his publishers have turned down his manuscript, he intrudes such a pure theatrical gag as: "They said it was very well typed"; and for no reason except that...
...Manhattan, the New York Drama Critics Circle announced its annual awards: for the best American play, John van Druten (I Am a Camera); best foreign play, Christopher Fry (Venus Observed); best musical, Rodgers & Hart and John O'Hara (Pal Joey); for the "most distinguished and original," George Bernard Shaw (Don Juan in Hell...
...Camera. Julie (Member of the Wedding) Harris as a bad little good girl in John van Druten's pastiche of Christopher Isherwood's tales of Berlin in 1930 (TIME...
...Camera (by John van Druten) is an interesting stage piece though an unsatisfactory play. A pastiche of Christopher Isherwood's tales of Berlin in 1930-a decadent city already loud with Naziism-the play uses young Chris himself as a camera eye. But what counts most are the very candid camera shots of an English girl named Sally Bowles-a bad little good girl, strenuously bohemian, ostentatiously wanton, spotted with living without really having been touched by life. Julie (Member of the Wedding) Harris plays Sally brilliantly, with amazing verve, and with a naughty-child air saves her from...