Word: drama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the HDC wheeled Monty. Woolley onto the stage last night, it ended a series of artistic experiments and popular failures. By giving up on experimental drama and producing "The Man Who Came to Dinner," the club has turned out a tremendously amusing show. It isn't art, but there are lots of laughs...
...play becomes more & more a stock thriller, until the tricks of the traitors become indistinguishable from tricks of the trade. Playwright Wouk does little to plumb the presumably complex mind of his young scientist. After giving every indication that Carr is to be the center of a serious drama, the author makes him little more than an instrument of the plot...
...Drama-starved Washingtonians approved; for the past eight months, the Negro-exclusion issue has left the capital without a professional theater (TIME, Aug. 9). Into the library's finely detailed, 270-seat reproduction of a roofless, balcony-ringed Elizabethan playhouse (which had housed many a learned lecture, but never a play), ticket holders crowded for seven sold-out performances of Julius Caesar. Television cameras moved in for an eighth performance...
...characters in a play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...Gritty Caress. When Williams died in 1945, at 58, he left 26 volumes of poetry, drama, criticism, biography and theology, and seven novels. The most profound, difficult and serious of the novels...