Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University of Cincinnati lecture, John Mason Brown, drama critic of the New York Post, was introduced with flowery praise by English Professor William S. Clark as John Anderson (drama critic of the New York Journal & American). The audience roared when Brown replied: "Of course, I'm really not John Anderson at all; I'm George Bernard Shaw, Mr. O'Neill." At lecture's end Professor Clark, puzzled but persistent, announced that Mr. Anderson would answer questions. Down came the house again when the professor read off the first one: "When is John Mason Brown going...
...Perfect Shavian--G.B.S.;" March 21, "Beyond Realism--Chekhov;" March 28, "Barrie vs. Galsworthy;" April 11, "Three English Comic Writers: Wilde, Maugham and Coward;" April 18, "Modern Tragedy--Eugene O'Neill and Maxwell Anderson;" April 25, "The American Theatre Comes of Age--Barry, Kaufman, etc.;" and May 9, "The Drama of Social Significance -- Odets, Saroyan...
Juno and the Paycock. Revival of Sean O'Casey's gutbustingly funny, heartbreakingly tragic Irish drama (TIME...
Great Britain is so proud of the delivery of British seamen from the German prison ship Altmark that the drama of Gjossingfjord may be made into a propaganda film...
Even when audiences were not conscious of the Soviet pictures' wonderful dynamic structure, they were stirred by their deep adult seriousness, the elemental sweep of their action and passion, their handling of great masses of people, their cunning use even of inanimate objects to reinforce drama. In all of them were moments which could never be forgotten: the disheveled hair of a dead woman slowly falling, straight and perpendicular, between the massive halves of a drawbridge as they rise (Ten Days That Shook the World); the medical officer's pince-nez, dangling from its black cord with pendulum...