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Sunday Breakfast (by Emery Rubio & Miriam Balf) brought one of the weakest theatrical seasons in living memory to a rather respectable close. Though an inexpert play, and less a play than a picture, this American National Theater & Academy offering is veined with honest purpose and streaked with effective observation. A study of a family, it portrays the frazzled emotions and jangled nerves, the inner gnawing that makes for outward nagging, of lives lived under constant pressure. A harassed jeweler (Anthony Ross) lives over his shop with his long-suffering, short-tempered wife (Margaret Feury). Their son won't take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Jun. 9, 1952 | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

...rule in the old Kingdoms of Israel and Judah. A one-sentence, 67-word declaration, it promised a "Jewish national homeland" but conspicuously failed to define whether a Jewish homeland meant a home with an Arab or a Jewish majority. At first high Arab leaders, equally lulled by Lord Balf our's vagueness, were inclined to welcome their "Semitic brothers" back to the Holy Land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy and Civil | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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