Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...playwright, Eliot is still a little dazed by the footlights. He resorts to chalk and blackboard to work out his plots. Says he: "My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up & down." (The Cocktail Party is his first play to be produced on a large commercial scale. His only other full-length play, apart from Murder in the Cathedral: The Family Reunion, the story of a modern Orestes haunted by the Furies...
...Paris: Pulitzer Prizewinning Playwright Thornton Wilder, to supervise a French production of his 1942 play, The Skin of Our Teeth...
...Norden-son) is a combination of all the formula tough-guy movies that a lot of people have been staying away from for years. The particular locale of The Bird, Cage is a gaudily sordid nightclub; the particular hard guy is the nightclub's boss. For the rest, Playwright Laurents invents nothing, improves nothing, omits nothing. He has successfully combed the market for a strand of perfectly matched cliches...
...hero (John Berry) is a lower-middle-class youth with a small mind and big ideas. He winds up in the clink, partly the victim of the world he inhabits, partly the victim of his own shoddy desires, chiefly the victim of Playwright Manoffs cluttered, cheapjack dramaturgy...
...Ross had rounded up contributions from such time-honored New Yorker favorites as E. B. White, James Thurber, Ogden Nash, John McNulty, Peter Arno, Gluyas Williams and the late Helen Hokinson. Readers with a long memory could even pick up the fourth part of a "profile"* of the late Playwright Wilson Mizner where Alva Johnston left off eight years...