Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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George Bernard Shaw was reported weakening last night and running a high fever. A member of the 94-year-old playwright's staff said: "He is much weaker." Shaw's fever is believed caused by a kidney aliment. After his accident in November he underwent a minor operation for relief. He was returned October 4 from the hospital to his home. His progress had appeared good, but he suffered a relapse Sunday...
...Playwright Tennessee Williams' first novel shows no trace of the warmth and grotesque humor that made The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire into first-class stage hits. It is written in the gutless, languid, pseudo-Jamesian manner which has become the trademark of such young novelists as Truman Capote and Frederick Buechner. In fact, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone would seem to make Tennessee Williams a member in good, if junior, standing of the new school of decadence...
...playwright who loves darkly the denotation, the connotation, and the sound of his words. "Tedium, tedium. . . tee-de-um, tee-de-um," Gielgud muses, and there can be no doubt about what he means and how he feels. Fry makes exuberant use of images, such as this description of a shooting star; "an excess of phlegm in the solar system coursing toward a heavenly spittoon." As Mendip himself says, "what a wonderful thing is metaphor...
...author-playwright's official status here is Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. But he gave his own definition as he tucked his Trib under his arm and picked up his tray...
...uninhibited, a great stage personality whose bitter anxiety over encroaching middle age blights both her career and her love affair with a younger director (Gary Merrill*). Eve's original well-meaning sponsor (Celeste Holm) is a hapless show-business phenomenon: as the non-professional wife of a successful playwright (Hugh Marlowe), she feels pangs of insecurity at having her husband dangled constantly before beautiful, designing females of the theater...