Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...currently the U. S. Drama's white-haired boy. With two one-acters (Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) and one full-length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last's premiere he announced that the hero of his play was "the entire American middle-class of liberal tendency...
...onetime actor himself, Playwright Odets instinctively loaded his show with the sort of scenes that are ice cream & cake to most mimes. Stella Adler, as Gordon's wife, gets a chance to knock down her brother, Luther Adler, who plays the part of Gordon's partner. Brother Luther thereupon throws a fit. Somebody else knocks down the boy playing brother Ben. The Gordons' Communist furnace man goes around shouting questionable blank verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there...
...author is a "promising playwright." He has the knack of making a scene move, however trifling its import. He is not yet the biographer of Charming People, the talent that his predecessor, Phillip Jerome Quinn Barry, developed so neatly in the Harvard atmosphere, but he can place words, phrases and pronouncements into the mouths of his actors and make them sound like life. By George Holland "Boston Evening American...
...Pudding Full of Plums" is a slight play; it lacks body. It is a talky play; its action is very limited. On the other hand it has some characters who have reason for being; it has a problem worth consideration, a problem which the playwright solves justifiably and logically, and it has--best of all--dialogue which is nearly always convincing and very often genuinely witty. By Eliot Norton "Boston Post...
...Playwright O'Neill, admittedly, was skylarking, insofar as it comports with the dignity of U. S. Playwright No. 1 to skylark, when he got period laughs out of his sentimental little comedy. Screenwriters Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich have gone further, using the sound frame of O'Neill's drama as the basis for a period pastiche. It is all there, for people who can think back 30 years: the band concert on the common; the tandem bicycles, shirtwaist watches, lemonade and porch swings; the crested brewery horses, prancing to the political club picnic on the Fourth...