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...after Pearl Harbor was a hit. But (and for this the war wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original full-length play of any kind. No playwright of whatever nationality came out with a good drama...
...John Steinbeck's The Moon is Down (TIME, March 9) has stirred up (as book and play) the year's liveliest literary fight. By now the battle has become a general war, involving book reviewers, theater critics, editors, people who write letters to the newspapers, diplomats, college professors and Dorothy Thompson. Two great questions are at issue: 1) Does Steinbeck put too much faith in the moral superiority of democracy? 2) Is Steinbeck wrong in portraying German soldiers as human beings? It has even been suggested that The Moon is veiled Nazi propaganda. In Manhattan the Belgian Commissioner...
After Author Steinbeck had acquired success and a bank account,† he brooded over his wayward Flat, offered $10,000 to remove it from the Hollywood market. This virtually unheard-of maneuver produced its almost inevitable result: Flat became a movie...
...Steinbeck's paisanos were shiftless, harmless, simple, brawling, wine-bibbing Mexican mixed-breeds; M.G.M.'s are purebreds Spencer Tracy, Frank Morgan, John Garfield, et al. It is hard for them to be paisanos, but Victor Fleming's eloquent direction produces many a memorable sequence from the formless, wandering story. His characters never become quaint, and their activities are generally human and appealing...
...broadcast is a portion of Elmer Davis' five-minute news summary (CBS, 8:55 p.m. E.W.T.); a home-town report originating at a local station, bringing familiar voices to many a soldier; and a campfire tale specially written for the boys abroad. One of the writers: John Steinbeck...