Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Bernard Shaw, convalescing nicely from his broken left thigh bone, had, as usual, plenty of other things to complain about. Once a doctor heard him shriek "Stop her," rushed in to find the white bearded playwright on his stomach with a nurse rubbing oil into his skin. "But Mr. Shaw," the doctor said, "she's only doing that to keep you from getting bed sores. It's nothing at all." "Nothing at all?" howled Shaw. "Who's bottom is she playing with anyway...
...tarnish rather than the truth-Dame Edith hardly so much fleshes the role as clothes it with her own distinction. Her consistent sense of style and capacity for the grand style, her brilliant gifts of comedy, gesture and language throw a bright aura round a figure that Playwright Bridie leaves unfocused and indistinct...
...Glass Menagerie (Warner), the first Tennessee Williams play to reach Broadway, is also the first to reach the screen.* It does not live up to its stage success. Except for an "upbeat" ending, which Co-Scripter Williams reluctantly imposed on Playwright Williams at the urging of Hollywood, the film gives a reasonably faithful reading of the play. Painstakingly produced and expensively cast, it tries conscientiously to rework the frail story in movie terms. But the charm, the magic and the vague sadness of the play are lost...
Thornton N. Wilder, playwright and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, is expected in Cambridge tomorrow to help complete the casting of his Pulitzer prize-winning play, "Skin of Your Teeth," which the Dramatic Club is producing in November. Wilder will also help with the actual production work...
...will bring John Steinbeck's long-awaited drama, "Burning Bright," Another author of note to be represented is Clifford Odets, whose "The Country Girl," starring Uta Hagen, will open October 16. Beyond any doubt, however, the British are the guests of honor this season. Christopher Fry, the brilliant English playwright, will have two productions: "The Lady's Not for Burning," with John Gielgud, in late October, and Neva Patterson in "Ring Round the Moon," which will probably be booked for November. Both plays have already proved highly successful in London. Another British import will be D'Oyly Carte Opera Company...