Word: play
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most fascinating game for foreign correspondents to play these days is to figure out when, how and where the next big world crisis is going to break. Last week prominent newsmen in many scattered points were not only predicting another international "squeeze" by the dictatorships but most of them managed to agree on a date for it. With astonishing accord they chose March...
...Mary, Queen of Scots, was the first woman to play golf...
...Tallulah Bankhead-who, since her return from England in 1933, has floundered around in uncongenial roles-The Little Foxes offers a chance for powerful acting, and she takes it. She plays the masterful Regina with authority and insight. Herman Shumlin has directed the play in a style worthy of its significance and its star...
Only woman writing powerful dramas on Broadway today is blonde, 33-year-old Lillian Hellman. In 1934 she burst like a bomb over Broadway with her first play, the gripping, scandalous, tragic The Children's Hour. But for years before that New Orleans-born, Manhattan-bred Playwright Hellman had piled up theatrical experience as pressagent and playreader. The Children's Hour was scarcely off on its 20-month run when Lillian Hellman was rushed to Hollywood. There she adapted such cinema hits as The Dark Angel, These Three (the movie version of The Children's Hour), Dead...
Packed with drama and feeling, Lillian Hellman's plays meet their grim situations headon. A moralist, not a misanthrope, Playwright Hellman ferrets out evil and malice not to wallow in them but to flay them alive. Witty, sociable, personally far from stern, Lillian Hellman is happiest while lazing through an amphibian summer on an island off Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment...