Word: mcclintics
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...secretary and servants manage Falaise. Evenings, she and her husband often entertain such close friends as Broadway Producer George Abbott (who boards her ferocious bull terrier, Butcher Boy, because Harry Guggenheim will not allow him in the house), Lieut. General Jimmy Doolittle, Katharine Cornell and her husband Producer Guthrie McClintic, Publisher Bennett Cerf and his wife, Brigadier General Charles A. Lindbergh (who last time brought his own camping cot because he wanted to sleep outdoors), and occasionally, her attractive older sister Elinor, who once played in Max Reinhardt's The Miracle. With her guests Publisher Patterson rarely talks about...
...play, which opens in New York's Playhouse Theatre on October 16, is written by Mary Ellen Chase, author of "Harvey." The producer is Guthrie McClintic...
...adolescent behavior, but by themselves they are quite inadequate for a script which is obviously intended as an intelligent commentary on pre-adult life. So inadequate that Bernadine would fall flat on its downy face if it were not for skilful performances by some of its principals and Guthrie McClintic's excellent direction...
...unrealistic and unsatisfying. The acting was on the whole good, particularly that of Miss Stickney and Mr. Hamilton, until the last act when no one quite seemed to know what the author had in mind. Donald Oenslager's one set was admirable as was the staging by Guthrie McClintic...
...four-character drama, each actor is unusually important. To complete the indictment, all four performances are under par, probably due to the fundamental absurdity of the dialogue. Guthrie McClintic's direction is not especially impressive, nor, for that matter, especially evident. "Burning Bright" will not do much to further the professional careers of those in any way responsible...