Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smith-Connally War Labor Disputes Act-the great trap which Congress designed to bring John L. Lewis crashing down into captivity-was a confessed failure. Having dug the pit in anger at the series of coal strikes called by Lewis in 1943, Congress was now filling it up in quiet shame...
G.I.s who had fought in battle for their souvenirs were vociferously disgusted by the antics of the rear-echelon boys. Said a naval reservist, well supplied with well-won combat stars: "It's like the circus, when the death-defying aerial act has ended. Out come the clowns, beating each other over the head with bladders and whacking each other's backsides with explosive paddles. Well, the clowns can have it. I'm going home...
...letter pointedly asked if the delay was not caused by failure to use all available merchant marine ships, speculated on whether enough idle bottoms had been pressed into service as troop carriers, wondered if the Army had not failed to "act aggressively." The soldier editors ap pealed to Washington newspapermen to search out "the truth...
...real trouble is that the play is missing a consistency of emphasis on some one central theme. "The Secret Room" is essentially a melodrama. But at moments during the first two acts it seems to be aiming in the direction of a psychological study, and once, with some references to Miss Ferroni's aristocratic background, some special implications are thrown in. The producers evidently realize that this is confusing, as an entire new first act is to be put in early next week and should make a substantial indifference...
Although Moss Hart's direction is generally tasteful, he has his actors degenerate into over-emotional climaxes that spoil much of the last act. In spire of all this "The Secret Room" is steadily interesting and the very neat final curtain has some of the quality of a last minute winning touchdown...