Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Since "Ring Round the Moon" was written by the distinguished French playwright Jean Anouilh and translated by the distinguished English playwright Christopher Fry, it is only logical to suppose that it would be a completely satisfying play. The theatre, however, often peversely delights in confounding logic. "Ring Round the Moon" has more brilliant scenes, wittier dialogue, and greater thought than most plays, but there is something lacking...
...Some of Playwright Patrick's individual remarks are original and funny; several of his scenes are brisk and entertaining. But the play as a whole suffers badly from a frantic mixture of styles (all the way from George Abbott to Barrie) and from a sameness of subject matter. The "guests" at the Cloisters can only trot out their obsessions; the old lady can only defy and deceive her stepchildren. And the staging, which might have given the play a nice airy unreality, makes most of it noisily blunt...
...original Craig's Wife, Playwright Kelly wrote of a woman who loved her home more than her husband and was willing to risk involving him in a murder because speaking out might threaten her home. Scripters Anne Froelick and James Gunn have dropped the murder from the plot of Harriet Craig. They concern themselves instead with a jealous woman who tries to dominate her husband. This may be the reason the movie loses headway early and becomes a tiresome wait for the worm to turn and give Joan Crawford her comeuppance...
Thornton Wilder, Pulitzer 'prize winning playwright, will write Dunster House's Christmas play this year. Wilder wrote a series of "vaudeville blackouts" for the hundredth anniversary of the Century Club of New York, and he and other members of the House will rewrite these with a Dunster angle. He may also act in the production himself...
George Bernard Shaw died last night. University professors agreed that the 94- year-old British playwright was "undoubtedly the world's greatest living man of letters...