Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to Of Thee I Sing, with which Author Kaufman, in company then with Morrie Ryskind and the Gershwins. won the Pulitzer Prize for 1931, I'd Rather Be Right is a buttoned, if glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged...
...convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
Such a college tale as U. S. tabloids like to print about U. S. universities is Oxford Limited.* Its author who washes the university's whiskey-spattered linen in public is Oxford Graduate Keith Briant, last year's editor of The Isis, undergraduate paper. Launderer Briant, rolling up his sleeves, drags forth these soiled garments...
...general war in Europe for at least three or four years," was the prediction of H. G. Wells, British author, interviewed in Cambridge yesterday. Bemoaning the fact that interviewers practically always asked him to set a date for the next world war, Mr. Wells said that he arrived at the conclusion that there would be no immediate general...
...takes time to prepare armaments," the world renowned author said. Most countries, England especially, he classed as under-armed according to the standards for which they had set themselves...