Edna Ferber wrote in a 1936 article for Stage that beyond Moss Hart's "elan there is a fine playwright with still finer potentialities; a dignified and dimensional human being with insight, sympathy, and understanding considerably beyond his years." In...

After a number of years of drudgery as a camp social director and small-time little theatre producer, Moss Hart emerged in the 1930s as one of America's leading Broadway playwrights. His talents were numerous, extending to acting, directing, and...

Byline: Jack Helbig The weeks during and just after the holidays are the slowest months of the year for Chicagoland theater and the only time I really can catch up on my reading. This year I read a biography about playwright Moss...

STEVEN BACH. Knopf, $27.50 (4l6p) ISBN 0-679-44154-9 * When Moss Hart died in 1901 at the age of 57, New York Times theater critic Brooks Atkinson wrote in his obituary of this flamboyant figure's "unconquerable enthusiasm for life." Bach's lively, stylishly written...

Kitty Carlisle Hart died last week. She admitted to 96. But she was as young as the spring air. She left behind friends from every meeting she attended, every restaurant she dined in, every street she walked down. When I went out to dinner with...

Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose long career spanned Broadway, opera, television and film, including the classic Marx Brothers movie "A Night at the Opera," died after a battle with pneumonia, her son said Wednesday. She was 96."She passed away peacefully" Tuesday night in her Manhattan apartment,...