Word: emlyn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan, he worked as a World's Fair barker to earn money for dramatic school, later got a job guiding tourists through Rockefeller Center, snared a couple of dramatic scholarships. Then Guthrie McClintic spotted him, gave him a few small parts and finally a big one (in Emlyn Williams' Morning Star) that led to Hollywood...
...Life Begins at 8:30" is a melange of the vituperative and the maudlin, presumably designed to fit its stars, Monty Wooley and Ida Lupino. A little more of the vituperative would have helped, since too much of the original stage plot of Emlyn "The Corn Is Green" Williams still shows through, despite "The Beard's efforts to give his role a vitriolic dignity. When the play was debuted, New York critics dubbed it "The Corn Is Ripe." That still holds...
...since Vivien Leigh revived The Doctor's Dilemma in March. (Winston Churchill, a Leigh fan, has seen it twice.) John Gielgud has revived Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, which is a smash, plans to revive Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love, soon. Emlyn Williams will revive Turgenev's A Month in the Country, and Fay Compton opens this week in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes...
...Morning Star (by Emlyn Williams; produced by Guthrie McClintic) augurs well: it provides a talented playwright with a timely theme. But in spite of a smooth production topped by deft, middle-aged English Actress Gladys Cooper, it works out badly: the author of The Corn is Green won't respect his material, can't resist shooting the works. Dealing with an upper middle-class London household during the blitz, The Morning Star is so rammed with happenings-deaths, births, accidents, war news, medical discoveries, rooms to let, illicit love affairs-that after a while the play...
...Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME, Aug. 24). Only serious plays definitely set for fall-both deal with the war-are Maxwell Anderson's The Eve of St. Mark, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star...