Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...literary fashion of the '30s, young (22), fiery Playwright Irwin Shaw wrote Bury the Dead, a moving, pacifist play about some dead soldiers who started an army mutiny by refusing to be buried...
Writing in the New York Times Magazine, peripatetic Playwright Tennessee Williams explained that "the American artist travels [because] America is no longer a terribly romantic part of the world, and writers, all except, possibly, Upton Sinclair and Sinclair Lewis, are essentially romantic spirits...
Died. Nina Boucicault (Mrs. Donald Innes Smith), 83, British actress for whom Playwright Sir James Matthew Barrie created the role of Peter Pan (premiere: London, 1904); in Ealing, England...
...London, bulky British Actor-Playwright Robert Morley, who picked up a few prizes on Broadway for his 1948 Edward, My Son, was in no mood to return the compliments. Said he at a dinner at the Theater Arts Club: "The New York theater is hag-ridden by directors. Scene painting is a lost art ... Walter Winchell and about five like him decide the tastes of the American 'people...
...they call me a witch?" asks the beautiful and bewildered accused in Playwright Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning. "I live alone . . . speak French to my poodle [and] have a peacock which, on Sundays dines with me indoors...