Word: playwrights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sem Benelli, 72, Italy's on-again-off-again Fascist poet and playwright (The Jest), a leader with the late Luigi Pirandello in the modern Italian theater, veteran of Mussolini's 1935-36 march on Ethiopia (I Was in Africa); in Genoa...
Arriving in Manhattan, Playwright-Actor Noel Coward appeared to be in a grave, no-nonsense mood befitting his years (50 this week). Undismayed that his last three plays have been failures in London, he told the New York Times: "I shall write new comedies, for I have a great wit and I am a gifted man as well as being a very hard worker...
Behind Hepburn, of course, there was an excellent show. James Bailey's scenery put both the playwright and the actress in their proper context; the depth of the forest sets managed to keep the plots separate and yet synchronized. Bill Owen was a magnificent Touchstone and Ernest Thesiger was equally good as Jaques, the banished duke's attendant. Thesiger delivered the "All the world's a stage" lines with a forcefulness that, for a moment, eclipsed even Hepburn. William Prince as Orlando seemed somewhat less polished than the rest of the cast. The opening dialogue of the play, between...
Nicholas Benton '51 plays the ex-burlesque queen with the heart of gold, and Wayne A. Clark '52 plays her son, Alabams, who wants to be a playwright...
Died. Philip Barry, 53, playwright who won fame & fortune from both stage & screen by specializing in smart dialogue among the smart set (Holiday, The Animal Kingdom, The Philadelphia, Story); of a heart attack; in Manhattan...