Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gioconda Smile (by Aldous Huxley; produced by Shepard Traube) was a Huxley short story and film before becoming a play. Its trick ironic plot still had a certain crude fascination on Broadway last week; and Huxley, turned playwright, was still plainly a man of parts. But The Gioconda Smile offered mournful proof of what the stage can do to harm a piece of writing and of how time can accentuate a writer's faults...
Died. Edward Childs Carpenter, 77, playwright and novelist, author of such popular comedies of incident as 1915's The Cinderella Man, 1920's Bab, 1928's The Bachelor Father; in Torrington, Conn...
...hitching the plot of the man who slyly deprives his wife of her lover onto that of the man who falls in love with his mere convenience of a wife, Playwright Verneuil less enriches the enjoyment than prolongs the agony. The whole story, being almost as involved as it is predictable needs two or three buildup scenes for every one that proves at all entertaining. In spots, Verneuil fans Affairs with fairly lively comments about life and breezy cackle about Washington; as the bride, Celeste Holm is deft and bright when not forced to be coy; as the scheming...
...though it would seem recklessly swift in real life, seems endless on the stage. But the root trouble with the play is its mediocre writing. Satire just as broad and boy-meets-girl stuff just as corny have clicked as popular entertainment by dint of bright and lively lines. Playwright Crump will have to get on with his dialogue if he hopes to make good as a hack...
...Wilder, playwright, novelist, and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will assist the Harvard Dramatic Club this fall in the production of his Pulitzer prize-winning play, "Skin of Or Teeth...