Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marx chasing a turkey around the hotel room, and Groucho and Chicho browbeating a timid lawyer into signing a $15,000 check. In a matter of minutes Harpo accompanies the other two on the harmonica as they sing "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" over the body of a possum-playing playwright. All this and love interest too is entrenched at Boston's citadel of slapstick, the Laffmovie...
...Playwright Sacha Guitry, the 62-year-old Noel Coward of Paris, took on a new chore for Luxembourg radio listeners, Guitry, and his sponsor. From Paris the much-married jack-of-all-theatrics would make small-talk in his plush, bedroomy voice for 15 minutes a week. The old heartthrob's sponsor: Scandale Corsets...
Eastward in Eden is mostly concerned with what made her a recluse. According to Playwright Gardner, it was her unrequited love for Charles Wadsworth, a married Philadelphia clergyman. Even as a stage romance, there was very little story. Emily (attractively played by Beatrice Straight) met Wadsworth (Onslow Stevens) when she was 23. In the next few years they corresponded regularly and met briefly at intervals. Then Wadsworth prudently bowed out and went off to a distant pulpit in California...
After that, the once vivacious Emily led a partly shattered, wholly shuttered existence. She never again left her house and garden. Her life became the hundreds & hundreds of poems-many without form but few without magical phrasing-that made her, among other things, a "humorist of agony." Playwright Gardner writes of Emily appreciatively enough, but Eastward in Eden is neither very poetic nor very dramatic, and is often downright dull...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...