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540:, when the British poet was visiting New York after World War I, led to a lifelong friendship and many visits to Sassoon's country house when Behrman was in England. While not gay himself, Behrman was especially supportive of the tribulations of Sassoon's always turbulent love life. Work on dramatizing a short story by Somerset Maugham led to a relaxed, bantering relationship with that British writer as well and many visits to Maugham's home on the Riviera. Publisher Bennett Cerf repeatedly urged Behrman to write a biography of Maugham, feeling that he knew him as well as anyone. It was a project Behrman toyed with throughout the 1960s, but ultimately declined on the advice of 578:
psychiatrist disrupts their complacency. He is attracted to both the divorced Leonie and her daughter but schemes to marry Leonie to gain control of her money, until his plan is revealed by Paula. Other characters, including a young man romantically attached to Paula and a Russian emigre-friend of the family, visit the house and talk about their lives, aspirations, and political leanings. Will, Paula's potential fiancé, cannot reconcile his activist politics with the thought of marrying into a family with so much money. One writer described
270:. He was supported for a time by his brothers Hiram and Morris, who ran a successful accounting firm and who were willing to help their younger brother complete his education and try to establish himself as a writer. Living in a cold-water flat in Manhattan, Behrman worked in his twenties as a book reviewer, newspaper interviewer, and press agent, collaborated on three undistinguished plays, and published short stories in several magazines, including 31: 221:, inspiring in him a love of the stage. "When he was a boy, Behrman saw all the famous plays and players of the first decade as an usher in a Worcester theater." At fifteen, he ran away from home with another schoolmate for four days and stayed in New York City. Life in Worcester began to appear increasingly limited. At seventeen, he saw a production of George Bernard Shaw's 567:
well-placed southern family. He wants Marion to abandon the project, fearing that he will be named in her book and his plans derailed. A liberal woman who has painted both Roman Catholic prelates and Lenin himself, Marion must choose (she destroys her manuscript in the end), but is ultimately alienated by both Kurt's proletarian rigidity and Leander's smug conservatism.
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gives an idea of the breadth and depth of Behrman's life: e.g., Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Louis B. Mayer, Jean Giradoux, Somerset Maugham, Eugene O'Neill, Noël Coward, Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, Sidney Howard, Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Berenson, the Gershwins, and the Marx Brothers. The book
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College was a mixed experience for Behrman. He was repeatedly suspended for failing mandatory physical education classes. Daniel Asher, who devotedly believed in his friend's future, urged Behrman to take courses at nearby Harvard University. There he enrolled in an English composition class with the
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it is a collection of autobiographical essays and sketches culled from the sixty volumes of diaries Behrman had been keeping since his time at Harvard in 1915. "An odd quirk of destiny has put a great many people in my way," he wrote in a significant understatement, declaring that his purpose in the
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at Boston's Park Street Theatre that determined him on his course; that play "seduced me to the theatre," he later remarked. After graduating from high school, Behrman attempted a career as an actor on the vaudeville circuit. Bad health forced him to quit, and he returned home to Worcester and
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is about three women of different generations and values: forty-ish Leonie Frothingham, her elderly mother, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Paula. The three women, insulated from the Depression and its harsh realities by their money, live in summer comfort on an estate in Maine. A visiting
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tells the story of Marion Froude, a noted portrait painter, who has been prevailed upon by an abrasive leftwing publisher, Richard Kurt, to write her serialized memoirs for his magazine. A former lover with senatorial aspirations, Leander Nolan, hopes to marry into a conservative, politically
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Behrman's parents, Zelda (Feingold) and Joseph Behrman, emigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States, where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893. His parents spoke little English, and his father was a
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wrote of Behrman, " ethical and political principles have never been appreciated. It is an ancient rule that prizes are not given to comic plays about serious subjects. The court jester invariably ranks with dilettantes and flaneurs." In Atkinson's view, this "short, rounded, merry,
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attended Clark University. There he studied under the noted psychologist G. Stanley Hall and heard Sigmund Freud lecture on his 1909 American tour. He immersed himself in the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Arthur Pinero, and Maurice Maeterlinck.
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as "a Chekhovian play which emphasizes the disappearance or demise of an old, conservative order and the emergence of the new, more radical way of American life." The play also starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 153 performances.
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also contains some biting observations about the direction modern America had taken in the 1960s as it waged war in Vietnam and became more obsessed with money and imperial ambitions.
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scholar. (Though known for his sophisticated comedies and worldly characters, Behrman fondly dramatized his family-centered, impoverished childhood in one of his last plays, the 1958
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Behrman was known for his warm, witty personality and enjoyed good relations with many other writers, both in and out of the theater world. A newspaper interview he conducted with
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Berhman's comedies repeatedly celebrate tolerance, yet show how tolerant people in their generosity are often vulnerable when confronted by fanatics or ruthless opportunists. In
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to Behrman," in tribute to his famous student. In 1916, Behrman was the only undergraduate in the legendary "47 Workshop" playwriting class, where he studied
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From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy," was often produced by the famous
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Morgan, pp. xiv-xv. Behrman was helpful to Ted Morgan in the preparation of his 1980 biography of Maugham, and that biography is dedicated to Behrman.
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owlish-looking...marvelously erudite and civilized" man was far more than merely a writer of Broadway entertainments. His widow died in 1998 aged 92.
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editor William Shawn. When in Italy, he was a welcome guest of Max Beerbohm, whose biography he wrote in 1960, four years after Beerbohm's death.
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laments a political landscape that is divided between left- and right-wing extremes, leaving little space for a tolerant, humane middle ground.
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in 1919 and, when produced by the Theater Guild in 1927, made his reputation. Noël Coward, who became a friend, acted in the London production.
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Behrman's two most anthologized plays, which continued to be revived in regional theaters through the twentieth century, are
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Asher, who committed suicide in 1929, and his intense relationship with Behrman is the subject of an unconventional memoir,
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S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife, Elza Heifetz Behrman, the sister of violinist
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While at Columbia, where he received his M.A. in 1918, Behrman studied under the noted theater critic and historian
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A schoolmate and intimate friend, Daniel Asher, brought him to the theater when he was eleven to see
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book was to "revive their society" and the vibrant times they had shared. The cast of characters in
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In Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for
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the monthly edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. His first play under his own name,
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as well as longer pieces that became highly regarded biographies of writer and dandy
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nineteen years later, he would title an essay "Baker's Last Drama Lecture: From
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Biographical information for this entry is taken from Atkinson and Reed.
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All That Glittered: The Golden Age of Drama on Broadway, 1919-1959.
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trilogy into a musical play for the stage. His 1942 Broadway play,
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Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time.
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starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 219 performances.
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The Eminent Yachtsman & the Whorehouse Piano Player
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Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm
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included profiles of such notable figures as composer
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Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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S. N. Behrman: A Research and Production Sourcebook.
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With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the 206:, an autobiographical drama starring 1204: 368:," a short story by his good friend 1351:New York: St. Martin's Press, 2007. 13: 14: 1501: 1362: 680:The Difficulty of Getting Married 285: 645:(1923), with J. Kenyon Nicholson 342:(1939). His stage adaptation of 145: 29: 1304: 1295: 1286: 1277: 1268: 1255: 1242: 1229: 1195: 631: 1186: 1165: 1156: 1147: 1120: 1111: 1102: 1075: 853: 547: 294:, and wrote for such stars as 190: 1: 1068: 425:for the 1930 film version of 352:became a success for actress 235:renowned writing instructor, 960:Biography of a Bachelor Girl 185: 7: 847:People in a Diary: A Memoir 10: 1506: 1485:20th-century American Jews 1470:Writers from Massachusetts 1460:Columbia University alumni 1409:Internet Broadway Database 1324: 1173:The Letters of Noel Coward 911:Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 803:The Cold Wind And The Warm 758:Jacobowsky and the Colonel 229: 203:The Cold Wind And The Warm 178:. 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