Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast as the author of a drama about a youth who supposedly dies fighting for Leftist Spain. The boy's scientist father, comforted by "messages" from him, turns spiritualist. The boy turns up, unrecognizable because of face wounds, commits suicide rather than disillusion his father. In the play, the playwright ends by throwing this drama into the wastebasket. But Warner Bros, (discovered Leonard Lyons, unwearied whitewing of Manhattan's night spots) want to buy it for Paul Muni...
...play called Caesar, by Giovacchino Forzano, opened last week in Rome. The New York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...
...from the Privy Purse, thought that Joyce should show his gratitude by aiding the Allied cause. Joyce, who was under oath to the Austrians not to bear arms and is resolutely unpolitical, thought he did enough by spreading British culture. He founded the English Players and put on his play Exiles...
...used primarily for research and study. A work of art is not simply a work of art in and by itself. It is not something to be started at by the members at a Ladies' Saturday Afternoon Club who will whisper in ignorant admiration and then speed home to play bridge. Art is neither hide-bound nor rigid but a sincere and amazingly human way of providing for the necessary satisfaction of both artist and audience...
...version of the racy Broadway hit, "Yes, My Darling Daughter" has done a fairly remarkable job of hedging around the censors. Aside from a couple of ludicrous lines about "trusting" the younger generation, the picture manages to preserve a great deal of the wit and comedy that made the play...