Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quarreled with almost every producer, director and playwright who has crossed her path in recent years. Oddly, the bitterest feuds have involved her best plays. She does not speak to The Little Foxes' Producer-Director Herman Shumlin and Playwright Lillian Hellman (both leftists whose rows with Tallulah were political as well as professional). She does not speak to The Skin of Our Teeth's Producer Michael Myerberg and Director Elia Kazan. Shumlin will not even discuss her. Billy Rose, who starred her in Clifford Odets' Clash By Night, is more reticent about Tallulah than...
From 40 Filing Cases. In Roosevelt and Hopkins, Playwright Robert Sherwood (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois) has written the best book on World War II by an American. The title belies the vast scope of Sherwood's effort. This is not only the story of Hopkins in the role of personal chief of staff and messenger of F.D.R. It is the one book so far which adequately provides 1) a sympathetic but candid exposition of Roosevelt's domestic, foreign and military dilemmas throughout the war, and how he met them; 2) an informed, balanced...
Nursing the critical wounds induced by his talky Summer and Smoke ("I thought some of the criticisms were unnecessarily severe, but they were certainly honestly written"), Playwright Tennessee Williams admitted that he himself had suffered early doubts about his latest: "I had read it aloud to a friend whose opinion I respected and he had gone to sleep...
...Leading Lady (by Ruth Gordon; produced by Victor Samrock & William Fields) was a turn-of-the-century fandango about theater people that Ruth Gordon, playwright, wrote for Ruth Gordon, actress. Trying mainly for glamor, it traded chiefly in hokum-and pretty tarnished hokum at that. Miss Gordon herself was so very much of a Heroine that she was not much of a help...
...addition to being a playwright, music critic, economist and socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...