Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greece and Grecian society appear dragged in by quotation marks and seem completely out of context. Revolving around a yearling Congressman who identifies himself with his namesake, the play attempts to inject an Old World perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result is a hollow bust...
...Comics (Macmillan; $5), Artist-Author Colton Waugh, son of the late famed seascaper, Frederick Waugh, has brushed in the history of the funnies' first half-century. An ex-comic-stripper himself (he succeeded Milton Caniff as penman of Dickie Dare), Waugh has done a notable fact-finding job in charting the never-never land that Richard Outcault discovered...
Syndication of the strips in 1915 launched the period of what Author Waugh rhapsodically calls the "old masters"-strips that expressed some real, if limited, human situation: Mutt, lean, mean and grubby, abusing Jeff, "symbol of the little man, kicked, downtrodden, and yet eternally coming back for more"; Barney Google in love with his shy, awkward horse, Spark Plug; Maggie scrambling up the social ladder while Jiggs pathetically tries to escape to the simple joys of corned beef & cabbage at Dinty Moore's place...
...vehicles are always freighted with something worth unloading. In Goodbye, Mr. Chips it was Tender Sentiment; in Lost Horizon it was Thrilling Adventure; in this picture it is Gripping Realism. The story, which takes place in a British mill town between wars, sets forth in sweeping Hiltonian periods the author's social beliefs; he is squarely back of good government and sanitation, strongly opposed to alcoholism...
Lavery is in Boston for the opening of his new comedy. "The Gentleman from Athens," which aroused a considerable stir when Lela Rogers mother of Ginger, termed it Communistic on America's Town Meeting of the Air. The producer and author have filed a $2 million libel suit...