Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Hugh Carleton Greene, 49, brother of Novelist-Playwright Graham Greene, took over as director general of the British Broadcasting Corp., replacing 60-year-old Sir Ian Jacob. Going from Oxford to Fleet Street in 1933, Carleton Greene was a Daily Telegraph correspondent until 1940, when he joined BBC to wage psychological warfare. BBC staffers are confident that their new 6½ ft. "D.G." is the man to hold up the BBC side in 1964, when the BBC's charter and the mandate of the ITV commercial network both expire...
...Broadway Five Finger Exercise. With expert restraint, British Playwright Peter Shaffer lays out the battle lines of a marital war between a man of rough sensibility (Roland Culver) and his culture-fey wife (Jessica Tandy), with their son and a German tutor caught in no man's land...
Former United Nations General Assembly President Charles H. Malik heads a list of visiting educators who will offer courses in the Summer School this year. Irish playwright W. Dennis Johnston, and A. A. Mendilow of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem are also included in the list of visiting educators announced by the Summer School staff yesterday...
...sort of ordeal that triggers the adrenalin of angry young men afflicted Britain's young (30) Playwright John (Look Back in Anger) Osborne. It became known that a television producer had rejected Osborne's very first TV effort, with a broad hint that it was amateurish. Abed with flu. Osborne grumped unsportingly: "Television is to the theater what etching is to oils." Then word leaked that still another producer had bounced the same script. Snarled Osborne: "What was a private negotiation has now become a public sport. I shall withdraw it.'' But he did not have...
...Playwright Levitt has made good use of two strong natural assets: a stormy trial, always a virtual synonym for lively theater, and one of the great mass-horror stories of history. Upon these he has raised, with frequently discernible modern overtones, a large moral problem of guilt. Well acted under Jose Ferrer's uninhibited staging, the play offers an evening that has much in its favor in both theme and treatment. It has both bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater...