Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from past experience, his legal vulnerability is not so great, Several years ago, on the inspiration of a similar Petrillo ban, Congress passed the Lea Bill, which forbade the forcing of a radio station licensee to hire any more employees than necessary for the running of his station. The Act was judged unconstitutional by an Hlinois District Court in 1946 on the grounds of being indefinite, discriminatory, and a violation of the thirteenth amendment forbidding involuntary servitude. Petrillo might possibly be stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley secondary...
Since the third act at least equalled its predecessors this is a very adequate evaluation of the latest F. Hugh Herbert opus. It is an "I guess I like it" bit of pleasantry that would disintegrate under any more piercing inspection...
Technically, despite a weak first act-apparently rewritten in immense haste after opening night--Mr. Herbert's writing gets in the way of almost nobody and in fact keeps the evening moving right along. His drawing-room dialogue doesn't have the wicked sparkle of Noel Coward, but the audience is not embarrassed by an absence of chuckles...
...president calls for a meeting "to formulate an immediate joint program" and the AFL hierarchy declines in a huff. But under the surface of intra-labor jockeying the plain fact persists that both CIO and AFL have common political aims in the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act and the defeat of its Congressional supporters...
Toward the end of the first act of "Sweethearts," Bobby Clark juggles his ubiquitous cigar on a cane and wonders if "there was ever a plot so complicated and yet so thin." Probably not; but the sting of the conjecture is mitigated by Clark's shenanigans, proceeding, as he does, to make the Victor Herbert musical noteworthy indeed. The stumpy comic with the skin-tight specs and vaudeville mannerisms compensates for the shortcomings of the rewritten plot, and should satisfy all but those with tin ears and antediluvian morals...