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...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...
...entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original full-length play of any kind. No playwright of whatever nationality came out with a good drama. There was too much luckless trying to read the public's mind, too much...