Word: one-act
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...chickens, visits his wife's family's country place in Pennsylvania's Poconos. There he skis in winter, and in summer, he shyly admits, he likes to "listen to the birds." Lately he has been working on a Negro folk opera Dreamy Kid (based on a one-act play by Eugene O'Neill). Jimmie plays three nights a week in a Jamaica bar & grill. He turns down other offers. "I don't want to be held up by hard and fast rules now-I want to give all my time to my studies...
...Betty Smith's marriage to Private Jones (first name: Joe) that finally brought about the impossible and gave a book about Brooklyn more newspaper space than the Dodgers. When Betty Smith was living in Chapel Hill, N.C., turning out unsalable one-act plays and reading the late Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River, which she says caused her to begin her novel, Private Jones was assistant editor of the Chapel Hill Weekly. Though they lived for six years in the same small town, they never met. A series of articles about Army life by Private Jones...
...Army Play by Play (produced by John Golden and the Second Service Command). Last fall Producer John Golden (Lightnin', Claudia) announced a one-act play contest for soldiers. Last June he offered the top five of 114 entries to a special audience that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor LaGuardia, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, a ton of Army & Navy brass hats. The audience's enthusiasm aroused the public's envy, and last week Producer Golden offered The Army Play by Play on Broadway for a short...
...line with the general trend toward reduction followed by the Eli publications, the Dramatic Association will limit itself to one one-act play this summer, while the Political Union and the debating teams will resort to more informal discussions, with perhaps one formal debate toward the end of the season...
...Solomon and Balkis", the one-act opera version of Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" story "The Butterfly That Stamped", goes on the Lowell House boards tonight for its first stage premiere...