Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Clifford Odets, 32, Leftist playwright (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty Golden Boy); by Luise Rainer, 26, Continental actress who won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences award in both 1936 and 1937 (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth); in Hollywood. Charges: he brooded, stayed away nights, failed to visit her in the hospital, suggested, that she quit her career. Divorced. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 24, onetime Olympic backstroke swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement...
...Holiday, Playwright Barry was, it now appears, touching a more delicate nerve centre than anyone could have guessed before Depression. Consequently, all Screenwriter Stewart had to do to make it look as though the play had been written yesterday was to underscore its already plotted class-angles. Thus, Julia Seton's father becomes an anti-New Deal tory, who regards his prospective son-in-law's distrust of rugged individualistic money-grubbing as dangerously unAmerican. Johnny Case (Gary Grant) becomes the more ingratiating when his ambition to take a sabbatical is presented as evidence of liberal leanings. Linda...
...third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage production of Holiday. In this version, as in the first cinema edition, the Stewart role-that of the hero...
...months before opening its revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, management of New York's Mercury Theatre wrote to Playwright Shaw to ask what royalties he wanted. Surprised to get no reply, the Mercury cabled Playwright Shaw, finally extracted his assurance that his terms "would not be too unreasonable'' (TIME, May 8). Last week, when Heartbreak House, after running for six weeks, was about to close, the Mercury Theatre finally got Playwright Shaw's terms and his excuse for the delay...
Edouard Bourdet is director of the Théâtre Français, better known as the Comédie Francaise, which is the haughtiest and most famous theatre in the world. Recently the Comédie Franchise was delighted to honor French Playwright Henry Bernstein's Judith. But not, in Bernstein's opinion, to rehearse it properly. Thereupon Bernstein naturally insulted Bourdet. Bourdet naturally challenged Bernstein to a duel. It was Bourdet's first, Bernstein's ninth...