Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Parlor Story (by William McCleery; produced by Paul Streger) might have made a very pleasant comedy had it kepi to the mood of the title. Playwright McCleery has a feeling for people (particularly young people) and a knack for natural and amusing dialogue. But he has cluttered his parlor with ideological furniture and chained his characters to a large hunk of plot...
...real wit and imagination, Volpone and Mosca are exhilarating villains; their dupes are ludicrous victims. And Ben Jonson, the solidest playwright of his age, was possibly its finest rhetorician-a man who could give words color and weight, impact and grandeur...
Died. Max Maurey, 77, French playwright and founder of Paris' famed Grand-Guignol (see THEATER) ; in Neuilly, France...
Beautiful Ugliness. Samuel T. Wilson, Columbus Dispatch drama critic and dean of Columbus reviewers, wrote that Moon is "the playwright's present towering achievement as a dramatic craftsman and above all as a poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain...
...Sons (by Arthur Miller; produced by Harold Clurman, Elia Kazan & Walter Fried, in association with Herbert H. Harris) has a theatrical force that covers a multitude of sins. Playwright Miller (best known for his novel, Focus) tends to overload his plot and overheat his atmosphere. His writing is uneven, some of his main characters are sometimes unreal, and most of his minor characters are at all times unnecessary. But he combines enough purposefulness with enough power to make him the most interesting of Broadway's new serious playwrights-few of whom, unfortunately, are interesting...