Broadway in review

pt. 1. The theatre in wartime

pt. 2. As sparks fly upward: Hamlet unabridged

Mr. Olivier's and Miss Leigh's unfair Verona

Mr. Anderson's Key Largo

pt. 3. The pursuit of happiness: Wit and the wisecrack

Mr. Evans' Plump Jack

Congreve and Bobby Clark

Days without end, or Life with Father

The male animal and Mr. Thurber

pt. 4. "The only honest hypocrites": Miss Hayes and Miss Cornell compared

John Barrymore's return

Miss Bankhead and The little foxes

Thornton Wilder turns actor

Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia story

pt. 5. America's yield: Bob Sherwood in Illinois

Mr. Sherwood's war play

Here come the clowns

On Mr. Saroyan's trapeze

pt. 6. Over the water: Ireland and The white steed

Mr. Morley's Oscar Wilde

Mr. Milne passes by

Murder as a fine art, or Ladies in retirement

Danton and Orson Welles

pt. 7. Madness with music: Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante

pt. 8. Voices offstage: The four Georges, or G.P. Baker at work

Thomas Wolfe as a dramatist.