Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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What actually happened, said Niles, was that he had bumped into Lyons at a first night. Niles told Lyons of a chat with Playwright Arthur Miller, once a $22.77-a-week member of the WPA's Federal Theater, now author of the hit Death of a Salesman. Miller had told Niles that his income taxes were so big lately that he felt he had "amply repaid the Government for the help it gave me in WPA days." Niles said he repeated the Miller remark to Lyons, who built a White House survey...
...mismated lives, the blundering wastefulness of life itself. Possibly Lola is too shallow to allow of much probing. But the more complicated, frustrated Doc does need-to be probed. For one thing, is he the tragic victim of a single mistake, or a weak man almost bound to fail? Playwright Inge tends to substitute mere sympathy for insight, and to employ those little touches that, though meant to be telling, are just the worn small change of domestic drama. Too often, with a dull pen, he writes on tracing paper...
Prize-winning Author-Playwright Robert E. Sherwood thumbed through a new edition of Painting as a Pastime and came to some definite conclusions about its author, Winston S. Churchill. "It would seem that if Mr. Churchill . . . considers each new, vacant canvas not as an ultimate objective, but as a point of determined attack," wrote Sherwood, "he must be rated as a young painter who is definitely worth watching...
Died. Rafael Sabatini, 75, author of more than 40 jack-booted cloak-and-rapier romances (Scaramouche, The Sea Hawk, Captain Blood), historian and playwright; in Adelboden, Switzerland. Born in Italy and raised as a polyglot cosmopolite, Sabatini made England his home and English ("All the best stories are written in English") his language...
...life of a Nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live." These and many other individual passages are good enough to arouse curiosity as to who actually phrased them: How much is Roosevelt's and how much his ghostwriters'-Rosenman, Harry Hopkins, Playwright-Historian. Robert Sherwood...