Show ALONG BROADWAY WITH WINCHELL Drama Sea Season Oh I Is s Great For Old Oid Timers Timers' Epics A Drama Reporter Cleans Out His Pockets One of the thc ace dramatists paid off cheerfully to quiet quieta a beef from a agal gal author who wanted to set the law on him for theft- theft ing lag her n ties You'd be flabbergasted if it we identified the buc bue- caneer cancer Two of the richest and most high highly praised un undertakings of the season laid gorgeous eggs eggs Jubilee lee and nd Jumbo It was a on for old- old timers especially authors bringing bring bring- log ing in works of Shaw Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare Ibsen and Anne Anno Nichols The season was unique in that Its Pulitzer award made sense It wasn't like that in other seasons When House was crowned none of the critics could remember the piece to write la a summary of it Of Ot Thee I Sing a sensible choice singled led out Ira Gershwin Morrie and George S S. S Kaufman who who committed committed com corn the skipping George Gershwin the But the music is still sun making money for tor G. G Gershwin on the air and in the honk I wonder If it Roark Bradford scowls when the Pulitzer badges are pinned on His book gave Marc Connelly The Green Pastures Pastures Pastures Pas Pas- tures a season five-season Pulitzer piece The book forgotten even among the Intellectual set was Old Man Adam and His Chil Chil- dren Those comments were made byone by byone byone one looking back over the season We aren't arent as clairvoyant as George Jean Nathan who wa way last October October October Octo Octo- ber called his shots shot for tor the season in a piece for Stage After buying his annual supply of hexing dust from his old Tennessee mammy Nathan athan reeled off olf the following accurate forecasts Katharine Corn Cornell en would get gel raves for her job in in St Joan The reason he said was because the role was proof actor and nobody nobody no no- bod body here or abroad had ever flopped in it All copies carbon-copies of ot Personal Appearance will be contemptuously contemptuously contemptuously and deservedly dismissed bythe by bythe bythe the reviewers and will all go quickly to the storehouse Right thank Any Anyone one of our more conspicuous ous actresses who appear in a poor play will receive critical praise for her performance by ways of giving a little variety to the de denunciatory denunciatory de- de tone of or the other parts of the reviews That fits Eveln Evelyn Eve Eve- lyn ln Laye in Sweet Aloes Any ny dirty blackout sketch even if it makes the boys roll inthe inthe in the fhe aisles with laughter will be loftily frowned on the next morn morn- ing And doesn't George White know it Na Nathans Nathan's har s 's crystal gazing was exceptionally ex ex- awesome In the case of Clifford Odel This wonder- wonder I author of or 1935 he e predicted would parent a dud but the I would pull their punches In order to look good on their raves of a year ago Which all came came to fo pass when P Paradise radise Lost fell feU fellon fellon on It Its face At least three plays that have been great successes in London will receive locally indifferent critical notices and will not get anywhere at the box office ollice Love On the Dole Edens Eden End and Sweet Aloes Call It a Day tooled fooled Nathan Nathan and his 1 hexing hex exIng ex- ex ing dust Two up-and-coming up new playwrights playwrights play play- wrights will welch on the of the critics Nathan prognosticated prognosticated sourly and hike for Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood for heavy sugar and lotus- lotus munching He had his cunning finger on Irwin Shaw of Bury The Dead and Master His foresight told him a couple of Harlem hoofers would sneak way away with wilh a costly musical full of waged highly-waged principals and andle ande he le e was right twice twice twice-In in Sc Scandals and The Follies which even surprIsed surprised sur sur- priced himself although he never let on His skull reading was WM support support- ed cd by the notices s on If It This B Ba Treason Treaso when he said a ply play treating of ot a U U. U Japanese S.-Japanese war would get soft BI handling handline from th the 1 press but would perish from tram box box office anemia You and I would not know that We suggested ested to to Mr Natha Nathan 1 that after all nil these years of get gd Si a ting In free he capitalize on his knowledge of the Z A Why we asked dont donl y PJ o write a play What ho he ejaculated hate myself The first Englishman to Lo J Uc c an Americanism sneered at it th thus thui setting the example for many c of hi his countrymen men i i |