Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hand of Shakespeare, but the voice of someone more like Leftist Playwright Clifford Odets. Manhattan play-goers took the play's smooth unmetered flow, its indubitable 1937 flavor, with mingled delight and disbelief. The delight was for a first-rate show that, played straight ahead with no break, kept them on the edges of their seats for an hour and forty minutes. The disbelief arose from the snobbish, traditional feeling that Shakespeare must be dressed up fit to kill, cannot possibly be made presentable on the bare boards he wrote...
...Second, while not as successful as his first, showed greater mastery of his art. Leaving London to escape the plague, he had been recalled by the authorities two weeks before. At ten in the morning of May 30. with two government agents and a London thief, the prominent young playwright visited Dame Eleanor Bull's tavern, took a private room, ate dinner, walked in a private garden with his strange companions...
Golden Boy (produced by the Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
Spark plug of the Group Theatre in recent seasons, with his outspoken Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, Leftist Playwright Odets took to Hollywood last year, turned out melodrama that veered neither left nor right. That Hollywood has improved the Odets technique is apparent in the swift mounting of scenes, the extravagance of dramatic energy in Golden Boy. That his experience in the cinema has not lessened his power as a playwright of the masses is equally apparent. The Italian family of the play might have been sketched from behind the portieres of its own flat...
Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...