Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Storm in a Teacup manages to stick a few thistles on the shiny seat of British statesmanship, has its fun at the expense of bench & bar, gives a friendly, honest picture of Scottish life. That the story is as purely Scottish as haggis or brose is the doing of Playwright Tames Bridie, who a year ago took a Highland fling at Bruno Frank's German Sturm im Wasserglas, turned it into a Barrie-like play...
Married. Jack Kirkland, 36, playwright (Tobacco Road); to Haila Stoddard, 24, blonde actress; in Springtown, Pa. Playwright Kirkland, previously married to Cinemactress Nancy Carroll, Jayne Shadduck, Julia Laird, announced his marriage to Actress Stoddard a week before the wedding "to avoid crowds and publicity...
With equal smartness Noel Coward has played the roles of actor, composer, librettist, playwright, autobiographer. Last week he took on a new role. A few weeks earlier his latest musical show, Operette, had opened in London, got distinctly chilly reviews-which jangled Coward's nerves. Sympathetic as a family physician, the British Admiralty promptly sent him on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, bade him find out what British sailors like in the way of movies...
...stage picture, the play is restless, intense, a tribute to Director Lee Strasberg's skill and care. But in an effort to turn honest document into honest-to-God drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...There has been one very important omission from the toast list," observed Playwright George Bernard Shaw when he was called upon to speak at a luncheon given by England's Pascal Films to inaugurate the filming of his play, Pygmalion. "And therefore," he concluded, "I ask you to drink to the health of George Bernard Shaw...