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...Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...
...Brooks Atkinson '17 of the Times called it "one of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry." He termed the production "magnificent," and said, "In every respect, J.B. is theatre on its highest level." More recently he called the play "a stark portrait of ourselves composed by a man of intellect, faith and literary virtuosity...
...From all but Manhattan's critical dean, the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, the touring Old Vic production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night drew warm approval. Judith Crist of the Herald Tribune thought it "a delightful comedy augmented by charm and grace," but Atkinson rated the show "uninspired...
...Trailing clouds of tryout praise, Archibald MacLeish's J.B. found Manhattan critics in a virtually unanimous yea-saying mood. Said Atkinson: "One of the memorable works of the century as verse, as drama and as spiritual inquiry . . . The performance is magnificent." Comparing it to Our Town and On Borrowed Time for theatrical effectiveness, John Chapman of the News added: "A magnificent production of a truly splendid play." "Not only beautiful stage poetry," wrote the Post's Richard Watts, "but also a fine drama that is as emotionally moving as it is sensitively thoughtful...
...Brooks Atkinson, drama critic for the New York Times, disagreed with Norton's stand and said he felt that a small theatre would be "more practical." "For amateur actors, a 500-seat auditorium can be much more merciful," he commented...