Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death...
Full of fine tall tales, Aquilon is itself a sadly skinny one. Playwright Aumont obviously wrote it as a gift for Actor Aumont. Adapter Barry did nothing to take it away. While Aumont is sloshing his emphatic charm all over the stage, the script is dousing everything with tedious chatter. Consoling but not countervailing is the quieter charm of Cinemactress Palmer...
...Playwright Thornton Wilder, working & playing about Europe since September, arrived in Milan to help in the Italian production of an old play (The Skin of Our Teeth) before starting work...
...Playwright Noel Coward (Private Lives) arrived in Manhattan, took in a few Broadway shows, sailed away for his annual winter sunning in Jamaica...
Forward the Heart (by Bernard Reines; produced by Theatre Enterprises, Inc. & Leon J. Bronesky) attempts to treat a compound social fracture-always a ticklish business. Playwright Reines's double-problem play first shows a young painter who has been blinded in the War and is bitterly unadjusted. Only when he falls in love with his mother's sympathetic, intelligent young maid does life seem worth living. Then he discovers that the maid is a Negro...