Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Steinbeck wrote the novel in 1935, and found his first public. Dramatist Jack Kirkland (Tobacco Road) made it into a dirty, dismal, unsuccessful play in 1938, and socked a drama critic* for saying so. It went to Paramount Pictures for peanuts ($4,000) and, after some customary Hollywood sleight-of-hand, wound up at M.G.M...
Theoretically then, if Harvard is going to win the Adams Cup, it will have to come from behind to do it, and the scene of this incipient drama is the last quarter mile, when Curwen, if he is behind, is bound to unleash the blistering sprint which makes Harvard the great crew that...
...week ago the Drama Critics Circle assembled to award their prize to the best American drama of the past year. After haphazard balloting, during which only six of the seventeen critics bothered to vote, no decision was reached and the award was cancelled. Critics agreed in calling this the worst season in the history of the American dram...
...strangling commercialism that constitute this free theatre: it might have been the WPA Theatre, until the politicians crushed it; now it is the Tributary Theatre--those hundreds of Players Clubs, Civic Theatres, College Groups and Summer Theatres that extend across the nation. They sustain our national interest in the drama and cater to many more people than ever saw a Broadway production. We may rightly worry about the past New York season, and fear for the future of the commercial theatre, but as long as these many stage-struck amateurs and semi-professional groups produce plays, the theatre in America...
...more revivals of these important landmarks, but revivals that try to retain the spirit of the play as actually written. Exigencies of the commercial and amateur theatre too often prevent such revivals, for box-office returns are founded on "names," and most of the fore-runners of the modern drama are unknown outside classrooms. It is a pleasure, then, to see the current production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, Nikolai Gogol's "The Inspector General." This semi-realistic social comedy, first produced in 1936, influenced all the later Russian playwrights and also those of Germany, Norway, and England late...