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...John Steinbeck undoubtedly wrote "Burning Bright" under the delusion that he was creating an allegorical drama of Life. It is unpleasant to report that his labor has resulted in a painfully pretentious bit of claptrap...
October will bring John Steinbeck's long-awaited drama, "Burning Bright," Another author of note to be represented is Clifford Odets, whose "The Country Girl," starring Uta Hagen, will open October 16. Beyond any doubt, however, the British are the guests of honor this season. Christopher Fry, the brilliant English playwright, will have two productions: "The Lady's Not for Burning," with John Gielgud, in late October, and Neva Patterson in "Ring Round the Moon," which will probably be booked for November. Both plays have already proved highly successful in London. Another British import will be D'Oyly Carte Opera...
Rosy Prospects. Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller is working on an adaptation of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, and the Theatre Guild is dickering for William Inge's Front Porch. Producers Rodgers & Hammerstein have scheduled Novelist John Steinbeck's Burning Bright, and Producer Cheryl Crawford has Tennessee (A Streetcar Named Desire) Williams' The Rose Tattoo on her schedule. By the time the season is half over, Broadway will probably be seeing Hollywood's Louis Calhern (in King Lear) and Olivia de Havilland (in Romeo and Juliet), besides such stage faithfuls...
...Izvestia, the Communist house organ which has often belabored him for "groveling before the West," Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich obligingly picked his own "rogue's gallery of warmongers": Novelists John (Grapes of Wrath) Steinbeck and oldtime Socialist
Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism...