Word: preston
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eloped. Preston Sturges, Manhattan playwright (Strictly Dishonorable); with Eleanor Post Hutton, Manhattan socialite, step-daughter of financier Edward F. Hutton...
Recapture. When a man writes a smash hit, Broadway's ingenuous habitues always assume that his next play will be just as great a success. Recapture got them all excited because its author is Preston Sturges, whose Strictly Dishonorable (TIME, Sept. 30) is still a smash hit. In Strictly Dishonorable Playwright Sturges exhibits a talent for writing risque themes and a romanticism as all-pervading as that of Grimm and Hans Andersen. But he is not yet a playwright of stature. He can crack a smart joke, can treat sex with refinement; can also devise such ill-assembled, trivial...