Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walkout. Cullman has dabbled in stage doings since prepping at Phillips Exeter Academy, where he took part in French plays "which neither the cast nor the audience understood." At Yale, trying to become drama editor of the Yale Courant, he wangled an interview with Sarah Bernhardt. When he asked her, "Do your love affairs help you to understand the parts you are playing?" she walked...
Mayor LaGuardia renamed it the City Center of Music and Drama. City Center opera was popularly priced at a $2.20 top. The roster of its horseshoe glittered not with Astors and Vanderbilts, but with such noted figures as ex-Police Commissioner George V. McLaughlin, National Maritime Union President Joe Curran, International Ladies Garment Workers' President David Dubinsky, and Jacob Rosenberg, president of Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians...
...Broadway trade, looked and sounded more like musical comedy than opera. So did its star: dark-haired, convent-bred Ethel Barrymore Colt (daughter of Actress Ethel Barrymore and the late Russell Colt of Bristol, R.I.), who had arrived at opera after a fling at Broadway drama (L'Aiglon, Cradle Song) and the nightclub circuit (Spivy's Roof...
Decision is sometimes too preachy, often too lurid. It crams the son's complex reorientation into a single scene. Moreover, if Decision gains in sharpness by keeping its drama human and local, it loses in stature: though representative, its characters do not have behind them quite enough sense of contending, irreconcilable forces...
Like his brother, he has been stage-struck since childhood. Living in Manhattan, he chose to go to a high school in Brooklyn because Jane Cowl and other stagefolk had gone there. He dashed straight from Brown University to Broadway, sat around in automats dissecting the drama with an aspiring young friend named Moss Hart. Later he sat at the feet of "the master," Jed Harris. Harris produced Wonder Boy, and Wonder Boy produced Hollywood offers. But Hollywood (Craig's Wife, Yellow Jack), for Chodorov, is purely bread-&-butter...