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DIED. Katherine ("Ketti") Frings, 61, versatile novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose film credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
Last week the existence of the Kern subtreasury was made public. With the permission of the composer's family. Theatrical Producer Cheryl Crawford announced plans for a new Broadway play. No. 93 with music by Jerome Kern. The book will be adapted by Playwright Ketti Frings from her 1941 screenplay Hold Back the Dawn; the lyrics will be written by Dorothy (Annie Get Your Gun) Fields...
...that he has no descendants of his own to stale his freshness.) These are in a sense negative virtues, but the absence in his work of abrupt stone walls of ideological limitation and piercing false notes of literary imitation is refreshing in the theatre of Maxwell Anderson and Ketti Frings...
Look Homeward, Angel. Ketti Frings's Pulitzer Prize and Critics Award winner, less bulky and autobiographical than Thomas Wolfe's parent novel and more the portrait of a memorable family, at once riveted and riven...
...Best American play: Ketti Frings's adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's novel, Look Homeward, Angel...