Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like its Broadway original, and like most movies with a weighty message, Home pays a heavy price for treating human beings as if they were clearly defined symbols in a propaganda tract. Another weakness to be chalked up to Playwright Laurents: the arguments against discrimination get badly mixed up with the abracadabra of psychiatry...
...Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson's script was as tasteless and untidy as his people's lives, it was just unpleasantly dull...
British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who has picked up a few prizes in Manhattan for his biggest hit, Edward, My Son, had some thoughts as he prepared to return to London. He was "amazed" at the U.S. public's respect, "almost veneration," for English actors. "It's very lucky for us, of course," he conceded, "but it stultifies the American theater . . . You are always giving prizes and awards to English playwrights and players, a practice which in reverse would never be permitted in England...
Also I was surprised ... at the remark: "Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets." I know Mr. Odets, and one thing which impressed me was his quiet manner of speaking; I often had to reach to hear what...
...Traitor has its serious side: there is some intelligent discussion, and even, in the person of Walter Hampden, a probing professor of philosophy. But as it proceeds, the play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...