Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the not-so-well-known fellow travelers: Anthologist Ben Botkin; Playwright Arnaud (Deep Are the Roots) d'Usseau; Artists Philip Evergood,* Raphael Soyer and Max Weber; Pianist Ray Lev. Just over half were members of the Masses & Mainstream staff...
...speed. He was born (1899) of a notable and nonconformist Belgian family who felt, in the words of a friend, that they were born to lead Belgium. His maternal grandfather, Paul Janson, and his uncle, Paul Emile Janson, were great Liberal leaders; his father was a well-known playwright; his mother, a Socialist, was the first woman to sit in Belgium's Parliament. At 75, white-haired, good-humored Senator Spaak listens proudly to the speeches of her son, to whom she refers as "the Minister...
...never read plays," George Bernard Shaw told Broadway Producer Jean Dalrymple. "I think it is a very bad idea for a playwright to read plays. If the play is good he is bound to be influenced by it and even to steal something from...
...history, Ellen's story is plausibly chronicled and diagnosed. Omitting no details of the disease or minutiae of the therapy, The Cup not only runneth o'er but is several times refilled. Sensational in spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble is that Playwright Paul knows what he is writing about but not how to write about it. His touch is coarse, his method tedious, his tone didactic; the play becomes a kind of Pilgrim's Progress of drink...
...Playwright Miller uses a good many of Ibsen's devices of gradual disclosure; he has developed a rather mannered, deeply native style of dialogue which is well suited to the stage but does not come sharply to life on the screen; he has told his story with compassion as well as passion. The picture is scarcely more than a photographed play, but it is unusually well acted-notably by Robinson, Lancaster and Christians. It is earnest, it is on the side of the angels, and it is not without genuine dramatic vitality. Yet it is in no way deeply...