Pollen Fever

…He appeared on stage as a child actor, and began writing plays at a young age, often directing and starring in them. His works range from comedies, melodramas, musicals, and revues, but his best-known works are comedies of manners such as "Pollen Fever" (1925), "Private Life" (1930), "Planning a Life" (1933), "Merry Ghosts" (1941), and "Laughter Now" (premiered in 1942), which dryly depict the troubled relationships between men and women of the leisure class. His other work, the sentimental musical "A Bittersweet Life" (1929), was also commercially successful. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…子役として舞台に立ち，若い頃から劇作に進んでしばしば自ら演出や主演を兼ねた。作品は喜劇，メロドラマ，ミュージカル，レビューなど多方面にわたるが，最も有名なものは有閑階級の乱れた男女関係を乾いた筆致で描いた《花粉熱》(1925)，《私生活》(1930)，《生活の設計》(1933)，《陽気な幽霊》(1941)，《現在の笑い》(1942初演)などの風習喜劇である。ほかに感傷的なミュージカル《甘辛人生》(1929)も興行的には成功した。…

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