Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great fund of Behrman anecdotes may serve to obscure, in the minds of his listeners, his own considerable accomplishments as a playwright and journalist. Although much of his time has been devoted to the stage since the production of his first play, The Second Man, in 1927, he says, "What I really love to write is prose...
...London performance of The Second Man, Harold Laski introduced the playwright to a tremendously tall British lord ("He seemed interminable.") Sensing that the nobleman was not interested in the conversation, Laski said, "You know, Mr. Behrman wrote the play you're seeing tonight...
...Warm. When the motion picture version of Jacobowsky appeared last year, one New York critic commented that Nazism and anti-Semitism were not fit subjects for a humorous approach. "He was dead wrong," Behrman says, pointing out that Franz Werfel had told him the true story from which the play was taken at Max Reinhardt's Hollywood home. "Also present was the composer Arnold Schonberg; they were all refugees who had lost everything to the Nazis, but they all laughed themselves sick. The capacity to laugh is the strongest thing in people...
First-man Gerry Emmet will lead the varsity quartet in the singles competition. Three Seniors--Pete Lund, John Davis, and Wally Stimpson--will also play in the championships, their final appearance for the Crimson...
...their talent," she said hesitantly. "I guess to be a hostess like Mrs. Eisenhower requires talent. I certainly wouldn't want that kind of a job--but, yes, it certainly must require talent. Debbie and I talk about what we'd like to do. I'd like to play in a musical, and she wants to play dramatic roles...