Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walking up & down the lines of monumental canvases, critics felt that modern Italian painting had not yet shaken off its shroud. Artists included Giorgio ("Horses") de Chirico, whose work is more frequently identified with Paris than with Rome; Playwright Luigi Pirandello's son Fausto; and the pride of Bologna, Giorgio Morandi, who ponders life so deeply that in his 46 years he has produced less than 20 pictures, most of them still lifes of bottles, candlesticks, tea cups...
...many a critic, Saint Joan is the lone instance in which the world's cleverest playwright discards the brakes of self-consciousness and permits himself one glorious swoop of spiritual freewheeling. In common with the body of Shaviana, Saint Joan turns on an agile inversion. But this inversion, the definition of a miracle as an event which creates faith, seems to spring from Shaw's heart instead of his head. A great, noble warmth suffuses the narrative from the time the tomboy Maid (Miss Cornell) makes de Baudricourt's hens lay in order to persuade...
...Summer (by Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...
...tale told by Playwright Harris, sister of Producer Jed Harris, and her collaborator concerns an economist who is misunderstood by his actress wife but profoundly appreciated by the New Deal and a female book reviewer of The New Republic. All hands agree to a collusive divorce, necessitating the employment of a professional corespondent, an honest girl from Tenth Avenue (Miss Conklin). The drama then resolves itself into the following questions: Will Miss Conklin put on the pink pajamas? If so, will she get into bed with Actor James Rennie? If so, will she spend the night? If so, will...
...production of Victoria Regina (TIME, Dec. 30), Playwright Laurence Housman, brother of famed Poet A. E. Housman, sailed from England, where his play was banned, to Manhattan. "I am," complained he, "the most censored of British playwrights. Bernard Shaw has had only four plays censored. I have had 32." The original version of Victoria Regina was a series of 32 one-act plays. Because three of Victoria's children, the Duke of Connaught, Princess Beatrice and the Princess Louise, were living, the Lord Chamberlain banned them all. Chuckled Playwright Housman last week: "We gave a private performance...