Word: theatered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eventually he got right down to the point: "The theater ought to be a number of handsome things that living itself ought to be in the first place. Is it possible for living or the theater to be these handsome things? Absolutely not, but is that any reason not to give it a whirl anyway...
...playscript, bestselling Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) decided that she would stick to novels: "I am absolutely through with playwriting . . . through with being the vehicle for producers' inarticulate creative writing urges . . ." Producing a novel is "not as glamorous as the theater," but it has a certain "dignity...
...whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry and a vivid sense of theater to pull him through. Here the sense of theater is weakened by wordiness and the episodic method is inadequate. The episodes themselves are often skimpy and short-breathed; the minor characters are mostly not even wooden-just beaverboard. The many scenes, instead of serving as a flight of stairs...
...Ford Theater (Sun. 7:30 p.m., CBS Television). Raymond Massey and Eva Le Gallienne in Ruth Gordon's Years...
...Jersey Republican had picked up a liberal education in strategy and tactics from 1938 to 1947, his own ideas on what was "subversive" were pretty well fixed from the beginning. Just a couple of months after the new committee had gotten underway, Thomas bitterly assaulted the Federal Theater and Writers Projects. He claimed that they were "infested with radicals from top to bottom," as doubtless they were. What was more, Thomas said, the projects were links "in the vast and unparalleled New Deal propaganda machine...