Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Behrman '16, noted author and playwright, will visit Kirkland House sometime in the Spring term, Robert M. O'Clair '32, Allston Burr Senior Tutor, affirmed last night...
...Russell Grouse (Life with Father), pleased Philadelphia (and was bought immediately by Hollywood). Adapted from a rather more serious novel (The Homecoming Game), the story concerns an overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
Anna Lucasta (Longridge; United Artists), in the course of its on-again, off-again success story, has suffered more color changes than a traffic light. As first written, back in 1936, Anna was a backstreets melodrama in which Playwright Philip Yordan rummaged among some white trash in a small town. The principal characters were poor Poles, and the heroine was described by one playgoer as "a sort of squarehead Camille." When the play, as written, failed to get a Broadway opening, Playwright Yordan remaindered the rights to the American Negro Theater. The white trash became black trash, and caught fire...
Separate Tables. A piece of superb showmanship by Playwright Terence Rattigan, the Barnum of the inner life, who exhibits some arresting emotional specimens in a seaside boarding house. Excellently acted by Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper...
...Playwright Allen Boretz has brought back an old acquaintance: the honest cop victimized by politics and the fickle citizenry; with Edmond O'Brien, Jack Warden...