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John Radford Abbot...
...speaking, Editor Canham was following the precept of the Monitor's late great Editor Willis J. Abbot, who never seemed to mind that the Monitor then had 100,000 subscribers, and that the tabloids were on the way to 2,000,000. Abbot scorned the theory "that the editor should give the public what it wants. . . . There are many distinct publics with sharply divergent tastes. ... It is for the editor to choose [his public]. ... If he believes that there are more morons in the field than any other class and is indifferent to all save mass circulation, he will...
...Brideshead revisited, Ryder found, was in as desperate a state as the rest of England. The chapel was closed. Lady Marchmain was dead. Lord Brideshead was married to the widow of an admiral who had also collected matchboxes. Charming Sebastian had wound up as sottish handyman to a kindly abbot in a Spanish monastery. And on the eve of World War II, wicked old Lord Marchmain himself came home to England to die. Propped up in a massive Renaissance bed, his Italian mistress and an oxygen cylinder beside him, he rambled in & out of delirium...
Broadway knows both Clifford Goldsmith and George Abbot as sure-fire when it comes to drawing in the crowds. Goldsmith does not waste his time writing unsuccessful plays, and Abbot, makes a living out of the money he puts into the theatre. It is therefore a somewhat sorry shock to seee "Mr. Cooper's left Hand...
Whatever laughs arise in the darkened Wilbur spring from the wondrous dead-pan of Stuart Erwin, who is the father. Other people walk around the stage as the plot thickens, but he is the only one even mildly out of type. If this is the best George Abbot, one of the best producers around, can do in the way of entertainment, one can see why the Broadway critics are predicting the slow death of the legitimate theater. In silent moments at the Wilbur, one can almost hear the final, choking rattle...