Word: hecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst, it is certainly the most disappointing. Playwrights like Odets, Maxwell Anderson, Ben Hecht, Marc Connolly, and John Steinbeck exhibited plays that failed to win either critical or public acclaim. Various reasons have been advanced for the poor theatrical season: the critics blame it on confused playwrights; the playwrights on destructive criticism; and the procedures blame it on present economic conditions, on labor unions, on critics, and on the public...
...only are the newspaper reviewers inclined, as Ben Hecht recently wrote, "to come to drama not to drink or sup But more to shine their little egos up," but their reviews are also conditioned by the editorial policies on the papers. No wonder a value standard in modern drama is completely lacking. A reviewer must see "Hamlet" tonight and the latest Cole Porter musical tomorrow night and comment intelligently on both. This calls for immediate reactions to an art form existing only for a short period of time. A high aesthetic standard, a delight in the whole range...
...Christmas night, not a new show-and only one revival, Porgy and Bess-had really managed to click on Broadway. There had been 16 shows in all, half of them by well-known playwrights-Clifford Odets, Charles MacArthur, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, John van Druten, Samson Raphaelson, Henrik Ibsen, Ben Hecht; and last week there was Marc Connelly. But this week Connelly had joined the rest: his Flowers of Virtue withered after four performances...
Before last week's tournament, Pancho had played in three spring tune-ups: he won the coveted old Brooklyn champion ship (defeating onetime Czech Davis Cup per Ladislav Hecht in the final) ; reached the semi-finals (where he took two sets from onetime Wimbledon Champion Sid ney Wood) of the Orange (N.J.) Invitation Tournament...
Parade's prospectus promises an editorial budget of $100,000 a month. Among its promised "43 Camera Men, 137 Brilliant Reporters," the eight identified are all present /"Mites: Ben Robertson Jr., Kenneth Crawford, Ben Hecht...