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Ossie Davis, L.H.D., playwright. You have brought back to the Negro theater oldfashioned, honest laughter. Gwendolyn Brooks, Lit.D., poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 1 | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Maugham was furious at the suggestion. Now Calder advances proof -direct testimony supported by persuasive circumstance-that Rosie was based on a woman named Ethelwyn Sylvia Jones. As Calder reconstructs it, she was the second daughter of a minor playwright, herself an actress, beautiful, intelligent, full-blown, artlessly warmhearted. Maugham met her in 1904. Their affair lasted until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rosie and Willie | 6/4/1973 | See Source »

Hungarian-born Playwright Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952) graced that happy time with many an urbane trifle. The Play's The Thing is a choice example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...hero (Hugh Franklin) is a playwright. The playwright's young composer godson (David Dukes) is engaged to a tempestuous prima donna (Elizabeth Owens). Late one night godfather and godson overhear the lady, through paper-thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous session of lovemaking with an actor (Neil Flanagan). While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on a ruse. The guilty lovers, he will pre tend, had actually been rehearsing a play - which has still to be written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...central flaw in this work. How much faith can we place in a man's evaluation of scientific progress if he seems to have no conception of what science is? Like this whole production, Brecht's script lacks a tone of authority. The players and the playwright seem equally uncertain about what they are trying to do, and therefore equally incapable of achieving...

Author: By Wendy Lesser, | Title: A History Lesson | 5/10/1973 | See Source »

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