SOURCE: Eustis, Morton. “The Man Who Came to Dinner.” Theatre Arts 23 (November 1939): 789-98.

In the following essay, Eustis describes Kaufman at work directing The Man Who Came to Dinner.

‘All Right, Mr. Kaufman?’ the stage manager asks … ‘Yes, any time you're ready.’ … George S. Kaufman has a whispered colloquy with Monty Woolley. He stands centre stage surveying the green living-room-hall in Mesalia, Ohio, which Donald Oenslager has designed for The Man Who Came to Dinner. He marks the spot where he wants Woolley's wheel-chair to rest, opens and closes the big doors leading to the library on the left to see that they slide smoothly, and rubs the edge of the stair bannisters in the centre to see that they are smooth enough for someone to slide down. Then he walks down the ramp which connects stage and auditorium during rehearsals and flops in an orchestra seat with...