Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Land Is Bright (by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber; produced by Max Gordon) is a show about the forces that helped send the world to hell, but to most people it will give merely an evening of sheer escape. It can't avoid becoming a movie, but it might have been a play. It is the story of a ruthless robber baron who amassed $200,000,000 in the '90s, and of his corrupt, irresponsible descendants-flinthearts and playboys, women prowling Europe for titles, girls scouring Manhattan for thrills. It might have lacerated the flesh...
Twenty-odd years as a playwright have lined George S. Kaufman's purse well enough for him to take a flyer in the producing game, and the vehicle he has picked to lay his name and dough behind is up for inspection at the Plymouth these days. When we looked in, it was doing a fair job of rolling them in the aisles, although more than a little primping was indicated before Mr. Kaufman ventures to move his baby to Manhattan for the season, or part...
...cliches trip over each other in their eagerness to get across. The wise-cracking reporters, the unconnected telephone, the slow-witted darkie, they're all there, most of them good for a laugh, the rest for a yawn. The second act in particular is pretty slow-moving, though Mr. Kaufman is doubtless concocting new tricks to bolster it up by the time he's ready to bring his proteges to the roaring Forties for an extended visit. There's still a lot of deadwood to be cleared away, but George...
Most of "Mr. Big" is about as subtle as a panzer division, but the Kaufman touch is enough in evidence to make of it a fairly amusing if unimproving evening before the college grind begins...
...year syndicate column on the Herald Tribune. Less appreciated now are his own Pepys' diary of poker-playing, reading, tennis, his punning and light verse. Real meat of his column was always contributions. In it appeared the early efforts of Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Deems Taylor, John O'Hara...