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...playwright, however, fashioned his leading character partly with the celebrated American actor Richard Mansfield in mind. Mansfield was the first man to introduce Shaw to American audiences, through his appearance in 1894 as Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, which lasted only a couple of weeks. Nothing daunted, however, Mansfield starred in The Devil's Disciple as soon as it was finished. If Shaw enjoyed writing the play, he doubly enjoyed having written the play-for Mansfield's production turned out to be Shaw's first theatrical success anywhere in the world. It gave him financial security sufficient...
Woody Allen, Playwright-Comedian...
LeRoi Jones, Playwright...
Arthur Kopit, Playwright...
This year, as usual, a handful of first novels arrived with the built-in interest that accompanies works by writers well established in other genres: Playwright William Inge's Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, the late John Gunther's Indian Sign, Poet James Dickey's Deliverance (TIME, April 20). A few more deal with a subject successfully chosen to titillate advance publicity. Felice Gordon, for instance, in The Pleasure Principle looks into the bed and bored accommodations of a beautiful and renowned American widow now wed to a Greek shipping magnate. Attractive Lois Gould, widow...