Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently having taken a good look at Clifford Odets' high-powered Waiting for Lefty, which first flourished in similar theatrical surroundings, Playwright King has planted his story in proletarian soil behind the Loyalist lines outside Madrid...
...Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (by Barre Lyndon; Gilbert Miller, producer) is that highly desirable addition to any theatre season, a smart, smooth, crook play. The fact that the crooks involved are English considerably increases the play's novelty, for Playwright Lyndon's lawbreakers are scarcely the Edward G. Robinson type. They dress shabbily, do not use firearms and are abjectly terrified every time a tall, fatherly police sergeant appears to question or scold them. Even their slang-in which a policeman is a "rozzer," a pal is addressed as "china"- is more quaint than sinister. Thus the great million...
...play the lead, and in The Good Earth, released too late for consideration last week. In one of the busiest 1936s in or out of the cinema industry, Immigrant Rainer not only became the No. 1 U. S. Cinemactress but also found time to fall in love with Playwright Clifford Odets (Waiting for Lefty), generally rated the ablest young U. S. Radical playwright, whom she married two months...
...Roosevelt Administration's farm program, putting the New Deal in a favorable light and its opponents in a very unfavorable one, required no Government censorship. It is safe to say that Power, one side of the story of the Tennessee Valley Authority, will require none either. Government Playwright Arent (Triple-A Plowed Under), the onetime dramatic critic who marshaled into dramatic form the facts Mr. Watson's researchers found for him, has stacked 33 potent propagandist scenes against private ownership of utilities...
...white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum of Playwright Arent's show has carried the day, dramatically at least, against Mr. Willkie. Concluding with the injunctions which currently are hamstringing TVA activity, Power closes on a solemn political note when the entire cast shouts: WHAT WILL THE SUPREME COURT...