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John Mason Brown

John Mason Brown (1900-1969) was a US drama critic and author. In a 1948 radio broadcast, Brown attacked comic books as "the marijuana of the nursery; the bane of the bassinet; the horror of the house; the curse of the kids; and a threat to the future." He resigned from the Pulitzer Prize drama jury in 1963 when the advisory board rejected his recommendation, and that of theater historian John Gassner, that the prize go to Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf." He was inducted, posthumously, into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981.

Wisdom & Quotes

  • Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.
- interviews July 28, 1955

Louis Bunuel

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