Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This answer to an advance man's prayer happened last week at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa. Reason for it was the appearance (for ten performances) of Authors George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, aided and sabotaged by tongue-tied Harpo Marx, in their Broadway hit play, The Man Who Came to Dinner...
...Actor Kaufman, complete with spectacles, a wispy beard and a wicked musache, bore down on the part of Sheridan Whiteside, the famed lecturer who goes to a dull dinner party in an Ohio town, gets hurt, and has to stay on in the house for weeks. Looking unaccountably Machiavellian, not at all like Alexander Woollcott, about whom the part was written, Playwright Kaufman was quite professional. So was high-domed Actor Hart, who, as Beverly Carlton, a caricature of Noel Coward, looked like any U.S. traveling salesman...
Asked why he had wanted to play The Man, Kaufman, who is a stockholder of the Playhouse and a resident of New Yorkerized Bucks County, said: "Pure exhibitionism. I'm just making a spectacle of myself...
Ernst Toch: Quintet, Op. 64 (Kaufman Quartet and the composer at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Austrian Atonalist Toch takes time out from writing music for Hollywood pictures to do a quiet, methodical job of concert-hall hair-raising...
Divorced. By Joan Kaufman Biddle Wintersteen Polk, 32: Cowboy Frank F. Polk, 32; for the second time in less than 15 weeks; in Carson City, Nev. She married him Jan. 31, divorced him April 11, remarried him April 12. First of her three husbands was Playboy George Drexel Biddie of the Philadelphia Biddies...