Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Herald-Examiner and The Front Page, scored a string of courtroom beats as a City Press legman by holding a stethoscope to the paper-thin walls of Chicago jury rooms. He got the eavesdropped verdicts to his city desk before the foreman handed them to the judge. Playwright Charles MacArthur, who with Ben Hecht wrote The Front Page, also did his stint on City Press...
Broadway playwright-director-producer
...Music Festival which will be held from June 27 through July 16 at Aspen, in the mountains of Colorado. The Goethe Bicentennial Foundation-whose board of directors includes such Goethe admirers as Herbert Hoover, Thomas Mann, Marshall Field, Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corp. of America, and Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder-chose distant Aspen as the seat of homage because, in the words of Chairman Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, "we thought such a celebration ought to require a pilgrimage." At Aspen, Goethe will be the center of round-table discussions, seminars, symposia and symphony concerts...
...Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown...
Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Arthur Miller (Death of a Salesman) spoke up for the simple life, in Cue magazine: "I can only work as an anonymous person among anonymous people . . . The kind of life one leads when one has the means for total leisure is a very destructive life. Leisure is a thing that normally takes place once a week in most people's lives, on Sunday . . . For the writer to forget the problems of work and leisure is to forget the basic patterns of people's lives...