Word: rattigan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next two plays were flops. Then war came, and Rattigan joined the R.A.F. He spent much of the next five years on North Sea air patrol...
...Terence Rattigan was just 24 when he sold his first play. It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it. A smash hit, it ran for 1,030 performances in London (1936-39), 111 in New York...
Last week, a few doors down Shaftesbury Avenue from While the Sun Shines, London playgoers were seeing a new Rattigan offering-and wondering what had come over the lightfoot lad of British show business. His new Winslow Boy was bright enough, but it had insides...
...plot, Rattigan had dug out of the Royal Navy's sea chest an old skeleton (the notorious Archer-Shee case of 1908, in which a naval cadet was falsely convicted of theft), and dressed it with care. His characters spoke their usual brittle, japanned British, but the effect was biting satire, not light comedy. As the surprise wore off, Londoners decided that they liked their Rattigan serious as well as flippant...
Most of O Mistress Mine is about as real-and as valuable-as stage money, but it has a lot of actable scenes am passably agile dialogue. And Playwright Rattigan plainly wrote it for escape. Saic Actor Lunt on opening night, in one o his rare curtain speeches: "If in thi angry, suspicious world we have brough. you an hour or two of laughter, I am very grateful...