Word: mertonism
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...MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Super-films and their makers satirized from the inside, with Glenn Hunter doing the best work of his career as the naively pathetic hero who learned " screen-art" by correspondence...
...Wolf Hopper dropped into the Cort theatre recently while a rehearsal of the all-children caste for a production of Merton of the Movies to raise funds for the Professional Children's School was in progress. " What are you doin' ? " asked Hopper of Marc Connolly, who adapted the novel for the stage, " Rehearsing your New York caste...
...Joseph Schildkraut. Some of the settings by Lee Simonson mark the high points in his enviable record of artistic achievement. ROMEO AND JULIET-Next to Hamlet the longest run a Shakespearean play has enjoyed in America in the current century. Superbly acted by Jane Cowl and Rollo Peters. MERTON OF THE MOVIES - The pathos of hokum. Glenn Hunter in Harry Leon Wilson's adroit satire on the eighth art, adapted for the stage by Marc Connolly and George S. Kaufman. The movie industry amusingly " shown up " from supers to Will Hays. RAIN-A brilliant tract against militant Christianity...
...MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Glenn Hunter as a movie-struck youth, whose loftiest screen ambitions turn out to be gall and Hollywood. A skillful satire on the eighth art, in which unconscious comedy proves to be the essence of pathos...
Helen of Troy, N. T., by George S. Kaufman and Marc Connolly, authors of Dulcy and To the Ladies, and adapters of Merton of the Movies, has gone into rehearsal for its metropolitan production...