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...Three. Manhattan producers and theatergoers rate the newspaper critics as strictly as they rate theatrical performances. The top three: the Times's Brooks Atkinson, 59, dean of U.S. daily drama critics; the Daily News's John Chapman, 53, successor to the late Burns Mantle, who writes for the biggest newspaper circulation in the U.S. (2,109,601 ); the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr, 40. who directs and writes plays himself. The Times's review, says Producer (A Streetcar Named Desire) Irene Selznick, is the "most important because the Times isn't trying to reach...
...victim of his own bitterness, the elder brother (well played by Cinemactor Kurd Hatfield) ruins everyone around him, rapes his sister-in-law (Loretta Leversee), and even accidentally causes his younger brother's death in the ring. "It has flavor . . . depth and feeling," wrote the Times'?, Brooks Atkinson. "Mr. Stevens has real talent for theater writing, being well aware of the fact that drama is intimately related to poetry and music." Playwright Stevens, 29, is the son of a literary Navyman, Vice Admiral Leslie...
...Bullfight. Then he talked and pushed his way into the offices of Broadway producers and well-known angels until he collected enough money ($10,000) to put on his show. Finally, with some friends, he organized a producing company and leased a tiny (299 seats) theater. Thanks to Critic Atkinson and encouraging reviews from other critics (the Herald Tribune's, Walter Kerr spoke of the show's "sensuous excitement . . . warm, intense, illuminating conviction"), the play is a bustling sellout...
Sing Till Tomorrow (by Jean Lowenthal) folded after the most Scrooge-like reviews within yuletide memory. The Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr objected with equal irritation that half the play could not be heard and the other half could. Brooks Atkinson of the Times described the play as "solemn gibberish." Sing Till Tomorrow was worse than just plain bad: it was fuzzily and pretentiously so, and with acting that matched the script. Involved were a druggist, his second wife and his son, who sinned with the wife and wrote a play attacking the father. "His pitch is a stammer...
...Hermann Hagerdorn '07, Edward Sheldon '03, Sidney Howard, Sp '14-'15, Eugene O'Neill, Sp '14-'15, S. N. Behrman '16, Robert E. Sherwood '18, Philip Barry Gr '19-'20; critics H. T. Parker '90, Van Wyck Brooks '08, Heywood Broun '10, Kenneth Macgowan '11, Robert Benchley '12, Brooks Atkinson '18 and John Mason Brown '23; designers Lee Simonson '09, Robert Edmund Junes '10 and Donald Oenslager '23; actors and actresses Walter Hampden '97, Osgood Perkins '14 and Dorothy Sands; and producers Winthrop Ames '95, Maurice Werthheim '06, George Abbot '12, Richard Aldrich '27 and Theresa Hilburn...