George S. Kaufman
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Sep 11, 2026
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Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
When it comes to Broadway partnerships in the 1940s, few were stronger or more successful than that of playwright Arthur Miller and director Ilya Kazan.
Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
They first met in 1946 and worked together on Miller's second Broadway play, All My Sons, which became a massive, career-defining hit production for both men.
Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
In the inaugural ceremony of the Antoinette Perry Awards, Kazan won Tony for Best Direction, and Miller won for Best Author.
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Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
Famed actor Laurence Olivier said he was, quote, the most loathsome man I ever met.
Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
Director Harold Klerman said he was full of venom.
Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
The playwright George S. Kaufman once joked that when he died, he wanted to be cremated just so his ashes could be thrown in Harris' face.
Patrick Oliver JonesHOST
And then there was scenic and costume designer Tony Walton, who describes Harris this way.
Adam GopnikGUEST
Still didn't work.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And finally, and people compete for who was responsible for this, whether it's the director, George Kaufman, the great... a playwright or the producer.
Adam GopnikGUEST
The producer says it was him.
Adam GopnikGUEST
The director says it was him.
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Donna FeoreGUEST
Which for me, with a writer, is the hardest in a musical of trying to get the exposition out without knocking people over the head.
Donna FeoreGUEST
You know,
Adam GopnikGUEST
Yeah, I think a lot of the credit for that, we're talking about Abe Burroughs wrote it and wrote it brilliantly, but George Kaufman was looking over Abe Burroughs' shoulder throughout the process, and Kaufman was one of the great carpenters of American comedy, and he understood, you know, if you ever want to read a wonderful a study of how a successful play gets written, read Moss Hart's famous memoir, Act One, which is just about how George Kaufman taught him how to write a comedy.
Adam GopnikGUEST
And that craft is evident in Guys and Dolls as well.
VictoriaHOST
But here's just a few interesting things about Irving Pitchell, today's director.
VictoriaHOST
He attended high school with George S. Kaufman.
VictoriaHOST
I'm pretty sure he was a member of the Algonquin table.
VictoriaHOST
He was also the musical director of San Francisco's Bohemian Club, a private club for artists.
John JacobsNARRATOR
But first, that wonderful variety show with a purpose, CBS's one-hour-long program This Is Broadway, will be round again tomorrow night on most of these same stations.
John JacobsNARRATOR
Comedian Abe Burroughs, Broadway playwright George S. Kaufman, Master of Ceremonies Clifton Fadiman will all be here, playing host to the top stars of show business.
John JacobsNARRATOR
Hear these top stars and their top acts.
John JacobsNARRATOR
Then listen closely as the expert showmen on This Is Broadway help them with show business problems.
Juliet McDonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And even in like small moments, he just like makes a way to like, he just finds a way to like make the movie like better.
Howard McDonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I mean, there's this old joke that George S. Kaufman said, I'm paraphrasing, but it's something like, Harpo enters and then that's all you have to write.
Howard McDonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And he kind of proves it here because he is very much himself.
Howard McDonaldSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
There's this scene that gets me each time of when he puts his stuff into the mouth of the stuffed moose.
Cecil B. DeMilleHOST
Next Monday night, the Lux Radio Theater brings you George Burns and his pixelated partner of screen and radio, Miss Gracie Allen.
Cecil B. DeMilleHOST
The vehicle for these nitwits of the networks is supplied by those sharp-witted satirists, George S. Kaufman and Mark Connolly, and was the first play that brought them fame, Dulce.
Cecil B. DeMilleHOST
In addition to Burns and Allen, our cast will include four of the original players, Howard Lindsay, Wallace Clark, Elliot Nugent, and Norma Lee.
Cecil B. DeMilleHOST
Our sponsors, the makers of Lux Toilet Soap, join me in inviting you to be with us again next Monday night when the Lux Radio Theater stars George Burns and Gracie Allen in Dulce.
Mark LavonierHOST
I'm Mark Levonier.
Mark LavonierHOST
There's Broadway in this hour from the Theatre Guild, adapting the play The Royal Family, written by George S. Kaufman, making its debut on December 28, 1927 at the Selwyn Theatre in New York and running for 345 performances, a play said to be a thinly-veiled telling of the Barrymore acting family dynasty.
Mark LavonierHOST
This ABC broadcast first heard on December 16, 1945.
Norman BrokenshireSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
the United States Steel Corporation, half a million employees and stockholders, presents the Theater Guild on the air.
Norman BrokenshireSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
United States Steel presents the Theater Guild, one of America's foremost theatrical producers.
Norman BrokenshireSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
bringing into your home every Sunday evening from the stage of the Vanderbilt Theatre in New York...
Norman BrokenshireSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Tonight we bring you The Royal Family, adapted from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, starring Frederick March and featuring Margala Gilmore, Estelle Winwood, Peggy Conklin, Edwin Jerome, Everett Sloan, Paula Lawrence, and Lee Penman.
Norman BrokenshireSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And here is Lawrence Langner, co-director with Teresa Helburn of the Theatre Guild, to tell you something about the play and the players.