Word: playwrights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Playwright Tennessee Williams (The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire) was paying the price of international fame. A Tokyo producer, making out an application to SCAP for permission to put on two of Williams' plays, listed their titles (retranslated from the Japanese) as The Zoological Garden within the Glass Enclosure and A Motorbus by Nickname Hope...
...rigidly just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
Stocky, easygoing Playwright-Director Sidney Kingsley, 42, is a slow worker. He tears up nine-tenths of what he writes, and writes nothing until he has documented it with a sociologist's researching zeal...
Born. To Charles Spencer ("Charlie") Chaplin, 59, longtime cinema comic, and fourth wife Oona O'Neill Chaplin, 23, daughter of Playwright Eugene O'Neill: their third child (his seventh, including the daughter of onetime protégée Joan Berry), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Josephine Anna. Weight...
...Shaw in Hertfordshire, gives an excellent record of their neighborly conversations over recent years. Fabian Essays, written 60 years ago by Shaw, Sidney Webb and others (and now re-issued with a new essay by Shaw himself) links up the years between. There is little of Shaw the playwright in these books, but much of Shaw the boy and Shaw...