Not that his improvisations win friends at the Dramatists Guild.

He repudiated the contract and closed the play, thus losing his standing with the Dramatists Guild.

Fragments of enthusiasm remained as, four weeks later, an audition was held at the Dramatists Guild.

He was president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981.

The dead can't speak for themselves, but the living playwrights have finally won a victory over him through the Dramatists Guild.

He returned to America in 1938, and became a member of the executive council at the Dramatists Guild.

From 1999 to 2009 he was president of the Dramatists Guild of America.

"We have a different constituency and different needs from the Dramatists Guild," he said.

Like all writers in the Dramatists Guild, they have total control over their material.

His triumph was the negotiation two years ago of a new contract with the Dramatists Guild.