It was getting so that the Broadway critics scarcely had time to duck. Maxwell Anderson had socked them for their treatment of Truckline Café (TIME, March 11). This week Playwright Irwin Shaw, in a preface to the published version of his short-lived Assassin (Random House; $2), socked them harder.
Shaw socked not only critics, but audiences, actors, censors, directors, theatrical unions, and virtually anybody he could reach.
OF AUDIENCES: "The writer for the theater in America today has a special relation with his audience. It is the same relation that Marie Antoinette must have had with the crowds along the streets on...
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