Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Young Lions. Irwin Shaw's bestseller about World War II, clarified by an intelligent script and gifted Actors Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift (TIME, April...
...publishers describe The Contenders as "a novel of character," and there they are right. The narrator is a beer-pudgy reporter, a jovial, middle-aging man named Joe Shaw. His real name is Clarence, but he is "everybody's uncle" and therefore Joe. Self-described as "an uncouth provincial boor," he tells a tale of a pair of modern Dick Whittingtons who see London as "the pallid aviary of bank notes flapping their wings in time to the cunning chimes of Big Ben." The London-lured travelers are school friends who grew up together in a town where...
...directed by Tyrone Guthrie. Most critics agreed that the Hamlet lacked force, but one wrote that "it was touched with sweetness and an aching sincerity." By 1941, when he joined the Royal Navy as a seaman, Guinness had played 34 parts in 23 plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan, Pinero, Chekhov, Shaw; and a small loyal public had begun to follow his star. "It was obvious," says Director Tyrone Guthrie, "that he was going to be tremendously talented. It was not so obvious that he was going to be popular...
...dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw on English theater...
...play concerns the return of Moses to Egypt not in his old role of Egyptian prince and general but in his now passionately held role or Jew. Although staging great characters--Shaw's Caesar--can be an opportunity to demonstrate what made them great, Fry does not achieve this. Yet Fry does make Moses a magnetic leader, a man of inspiration, a man whose motives and courses of action, often at odds with practicality or common sense, are hard for others--and sometimes Moses himself--to understand. Despite all this, the audience develops as much sympathy for Fry's Pharaoh...