Word: erskin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Friday-in fact, thanks for everything except last night...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...
...Love an Actress is a flimsy trifle in the Molnar manner, translated from the Hungarian of Laszlo Fodor. It is directed and produced by Chester Erskin, the man who put the final and triumphant touch of grimness into Subway Express and The Last Mile. The same note of grimness has unfortunately thrust itself into I Love an Actress, producing an effect not unlike that of a wispy Marie Laurencin drawing surrounded by a baroque gilt frame. Joe Mielziner has done sets that are too gorgeous for any actor to be funny in front...