Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fundamentally, this Wintergreen, son of a Lower East Side song writer and a Pittsburgh playwright, was "A Man's Man," and he was said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
...Acting," confided Robert Morley, Co-Author-Star of Edward, My Son, Broadway's latest British import of delectable British corn, "is as easy as selling beer or vacuum cleaners." Being your own playwright, added Actor Morley, really makes the whole thing "quite simple. You write a large part for yourself, as I did . . . and wear the audience down. By the end of the evening they're reconciled...
...Playwright Maxwell Anderson, who once bought advertising space in a newspaper to strike back at the critics who had panned his latest play (Truckline Café in 1946), explained in the New York Herald Tribune why the American theater has gone to pot: "Moving pictures offer a cheap substitute; wars have damaged our morals, our manners and our taste; our whole western civilization grows doubtful of itself . . . But," he added, nursing his old wounds, "when a playwright [is] . . . publicly whipped, flayed alive, drawn, quartered . . . by every theatrical commentator, that's an experience that can drive good playwrights as well...
Margaret Phillips' role (which Playwright Williams originally wrote with Katharine Cornell in mind) is only her fourth on Broadway, but it marks the sort of personal triumph that has attended Williams' other heroines (Laurette Taylor in Menagerie, Jessica Tandy in Streetcar). Although her skill and her accent suggest an apprenticeship on the English stage, 15-year-old Maggie knew nothing about acting when she came to the U.S. in 1939 on a visit from her native Cwmgwrach (pronounced Coom-grawk), Wales...
...loves to harrass. Virginia Fields, who looks better than ever, portrays a shifty Lady in Lights who gurgles "darling" to almost everyone but her dull-witted Wall Street husband, obviously another pet peeve of Hart's. For only two major characters does the Hart show tenderness. One is the playwright in the plot, played earnestly and well by Barry Nelson. The other is the actress' mother (Phyliss Povah), slandered often, but always ready to play Gin with the play's angel...