Word: kanin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LITTLE LEARNING is a dangerous thing," moralizes one of the characters in Garson Kanin's Born Yesterday, out of the depths of a drunken stupor. And the play could, if necessary, be reduced to that epigram and a couple of others, equally trite but true. But Kanin does such a good job of sugar-coating his didacticism that it usually remains palatable, even enjoyable. His "gems of wisdom" come in the rough, as drunken wisecracks or cute malapropisms ("This country belongs to the people who inhibit it,") and it is only in the final scene that the play seems...
...Dreyfus Affair forms the historical background for Dreyfus in Rehearsal, a new play previewing in Boston prior to a Broadway debut later this month. The script, adopted from the French by Director Garson Kanin, is the story of a play-within-a-play. The scene is Vilna, Poland, 1931. An amateur Jewish theatrical group is rehearsing an original play by its director about the Dreyfus incident...
...Dreyfus play is being acted out by Jews in pre-war Poland. But this tension, latent throughout the play, develops no further until the final act. It is difficult to balance tragedy and comedy, and the play often lapses into a no-man's land somewhere in between. Kanin might do well to cut a scene or two. A scene with a visiting Zionist lecturer, for example, fails miserably. It neither provides comic relief nor advances the story...
Adam's Rib (1949). A classic Katherine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy comedy. The film (which spawned the unclassic TV situation comedy of the same name) concerns a married couple of lawyers who take different sides in the same murder case. Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin wrote the script. Ch. 7, 11:30 p.m. B/W, 2 hours, 5 minutes...
...Thousand Summers, Kanin...