S. N. Behrman
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S. N. Behrman, in full Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, was an American short-story writer and playwright who studied drama at Harvard. Behrman wrote more than two dozen comedies during his 40-year career, and nearly every one of them was a hit. He also wrote many short stories, two biographies, and a number of screenplays. His work is closely associated with the Theatre Guild. Behrman was best known for popular Broadway plays that commented on contemporary moral issues. His first play, The Second Man (1927), was an immediate success, and Behrman followed it with a string of successes. Behrman wrote about the wealthy, intellectual sector of society, endowing his characters with eloquence and intelligence. He is distinguished among popular playwrights for introducing volatile and complicated issues into his plays and for refusing to create shallow characters. Source: [Britannica](
Books
People in a diary
Lively memior of the theatrical career of playwright, essayist, and screenwriter Samuel Behrman. Behrman was a well known author of high-toned comedies, often starring Lunt and Fontanne. Behrman's circle of friends ranged from poet Siegfred Sassoon to Alexander Woolcott, and everyone in between. Behrman's book presents character studies of these famous people that are both truthful, but also kind. A tremendous work for anyone interested in 20th century theater and literature.
Famous American plays of the 1930s
Rain from heaven, a play in three acts
English Lady Lael Wingate has a young American staying with her at her country home - she has taken in three refugees - two Russian and a German - Hugo Willens. The American's father Hobart Eldredge and his mother and brother arrive. Hobart is trying to raise a youth army to fight with the fascists. He clashes with Hugo. Despite looking a typical Aryan his great grandmother was Jewish. As a result of these clashes Hugo decides to go back to Germany and fight the Nazis.
Six Plays of 1939
Jane
Reimagines the classic story of Tarzan from Jane's perspective, following the only woman student in Cambridge's medical program as she travels the world to prove the theories of Darwin and finds love with an extraordinary man in the jungles of West Africa.
Twenty best plays of the modern American theatre
20 of the best American plays from 1930-1939.
Representative Modern Plays, American
Contains: Comedy. Expressionistic satire. Beggar on horseback / George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly ; Realistic folk comedy. The late Christopher Bean / Sidney Howard ; The comedy of manners. Biography / S.N. Behrman -- Serious drama. Naturalistic tragedy. Mourning becomes Electra / by Eugene O'Neill ; Romantic drama of history. Valley Forge / Maxwell Anderson ; The proletarian drama. Waiting for Lefty / Clifford Odets ; Domestic drama. [Glass Menagerie]( / Tennessee Williams ; Middle-class tragedy. [Death of a salesman]( / Arthur Miller.