Word: lardner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dickson's writing. It is, rather, a natural by-product of his choice of materials: social and political traumatics in the Court of Charles II. Historical subjects are by now the traditional matter of Phyllis Anderson Prize plays, of which this effort is one, sharing an award with James Lardner's Come the Revolution. There is, or has been, a certain sense in this tradition, for historical references can lend any play a certain measure of unearned dramatic scale. Such loans, however, are called in early, and the courtiers and courtesans of Monmouth spend fast and free. The play, with...
...Post was intended for weekend reading, but nobody waited that long. Dad plunged right into one of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al baseball stories. As soon as she could get the magazine away from him, Mom settled comfortably with a mystery serial by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which inevitably began, "Had I but known. . ." The kids giggled at Little Lulu's cartoon antics. And of course everybody could enjoy the latest Scattergood Baines episode or grin wryly at the gas-station attendant on the cover - absentmindedly ogling a pretty woman driver while the gas tank...
...Lardner said he would rather forget Come the Revolution, a political satire. "If my play were produced, besides getting bad reviews it would probably provoke a lawsuit from Mrs. Onassis," he said...
...following is the opinion of a minority of the CRIMSON's Editorial Board, written by BOISFEUILLET JONES, JR., PAUL J. CORKERY and JAMES LARDNER...
...following is the opinion of a minority of the CRIMSON's Editorial board and was written by James Lardner...