James Gandolfini, the Tony Award-Nominat... Ashton Springer, A
Major Broadway Produc...  Sardi's Caricaturist Donald Bevan Has
Died  The artist is also known for his World War II play, Stalag
17.  By New York City A Donald Bevan caricature of Hermione
Gingold hangs on the wall at Sardi's. (© David Gordon)  Donald
Bevan, a playwright and artist best known for the World War II
comic melodrama Stalag 17, as well as his caricatures of theater
stars that adorned the walls of the famed eatery Sardi's, has
died at the age of 93, The New York Times reports.  During the
Second World War, Bevan flew missions as a waist gunner before
getting shot down over Bremen, Germany in 1943. He spent two
years in prisoner-of-war camps where he and fellow prisoner
Edmund Trzcinski built a theater, wrote, and performed plays for
the fellow detainees. The experience would serve as the basis of
their 1951 play Stalag 17, which ran for over a year on Broadway
before being adapted for the screen in 1953.  Following the war,
Bevan, then