Word: playlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brief Encounter. A moving, British-made romance, filmed with skill and realism from a Noel Coward playlet (TIME, Sept...
Sharing the floor with Shapley and other scientists, Senator Brien McMahen, chairman of the Senate Atomic Energy Committee, will speak on "Legislative Control of the Atomic Bomb." The entire program, which includes a playlet on push button atomic warfare, will emphasize civilian use and control of atomic energy...
...send its WAVES and Harvard's Navy men "Sunrise Serenade." The 6:30 to 7:30 o'clock hours were too great a strain, however, so they had to content themselves with the regular 7:30 to 11 o'clock evening hours. Another novel feature was Rennie Phoenix's playlet, "The Boy Behind the Gun," a nostalgic, feminine view-point of the boy friend in the army...
Helen Hayes, Ruth Chatterton, Gertrude Lawrence, Mary Martin and Myrna Loy merged histrionic fireworks to plug the National War Fund in a crowded playlet entitled Untitled. More sacrificially, they also put their charms together in a line and bravely faced the candid cruelty of a news camera (see cut). Silver lining for the actresses was the local (Manhattan) record of the Women's Division of the Fund: gathered midway in a drive for $800,000, with less than 20% of the prospects called...
...archtypical Hollywoodman, John Decker, 47, was born in San Francisco. In his young manhood he appeared briefly on the stage, remembers playing a part in a Maxwell Bodenheim-Ben Hecht playlet called Master Poisoners. When his theatrical career flopped, he launched himself as an independent artist by cleverly copycatting famed portraits in which he substituted the face of his current sitter. Decker's first work of this kind was an "old master" portrait of divinely crosseyed Comedian Ben Turpin. Then he painted Charlie Chaplin in the style of twelve old & new masters including Frans Hals, Picasso, Howard Chandler Christy...