It's Raining Kudos

Broadway had its usual spatter of April showers:

P: Manhattan's drama critics named the season's best new play (Arthur Miller's All My Sons) and best new musical (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's Brigadoon).

P: The American Academy of Arts & Letters conferred its Good Speech Medal on Alfred Lunt (whose co-star wife, Lynn Fontanne, won the medal in 1935).

P: The Drama League of New York gave Ingrid Bergman a medal for the season's "most distinguished performance" in Maxwell Anderson's Joan of Lorraine.

P: The Playwrights' Company gave its $1,500 Memorial Award (for Playwright Sidney Howard), to encourage new playwrights, to Broadway's yearling Experimental Theater, which had already staged five new plays by five new playwrights.

P: The American Theater Wing handed out memorial awards for Director Antoinette Perry (Harvey, Kiss the Boys Goodbye), who died last year. Among the recipients: Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer and Fredric March, for their Broadway performances this season; Mr. & Mrs. Ira Katzenberg (TIME, Jan. 30, 1939) for their durability as first-nighters; Restaurateur Vincent Sardi Sr., "for providing a . . . comfort station for theater folk. . . ." The men got gold money clips, the women Tiffany compacts with "little automatic windshield wipers on the mirrors."

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