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...adding one fat and very funny man to one thin and not so funny play, My 3 Angels strikes a fair average. Sam and Bella Spewack must have chuckled, occasionally, while writing this fantasy of three warm-hearted convicts at Cayenne. But it takes more than a running gag or even a moderate number of good lines, to make a comedy consistently entertaining. Rather than the authors, it is pudgy Walter Slezak in the role of a combination convict, Cupid, and J. P. Morgan, who holds the play's biggest investment in laughs. To him belongs much of the credit...
...brace the plot, Bella and Sam Spewak, Shakespeare's collaborators on the book, provide two mobsters to luck backstage during the performance. Before they return to gangland, the thugs have stolen Porter's wittiest song, "Brush Up Your Shakespeare." Advice on love couched in the titles of Shakespeare's plays, the lyrics are studded with lines like "If she says your behaviour is heinous, kick her right in the Coriolanus...
...York City, according to Dr. Bella Dodd, onetime national committee member for the U.S. Communist Party, the Communist-led New York Teachers' Union alone had 1,000 members in 1939. John Lautner, a party organizer in New York State until 1950, said that at one time he had had as many as 500 Communist teachers assigned to him to be "processed into the underground...
...Bella Dodd, the former Hunter College political scientist who was once a member of the U.S. Communist Party's national committee, gave Senator Jenner's subcommittee plenty to consider. She repeated her old charge that in the '40s there were about 1,500 Communist teachers in the nation's schools, also insisted that Communists had even wormed their way into the offices of the New York State Department of Education and the New York City Board of Education. New York officials contradicted her. "I would say without reservation," wired Education Commissioner Lewis A. Wilson, "we have...
...Angels (adapted from the French of Albert Husson by Sam & Bella Spewack) makes a very enjoyable evening of an always piquant theme. It tells how three badmen-convicts, in fact-become the good angels of a sadly harassed household. The scene is French Guiana, a region where on Christmas Day the temperature graciously drops to 104°, and where convicts can not only hire out but apparently never have to report back. The Messrs. Fixit of My 3 Angels are employed as roofers by a family in dire danger of having no roof over their heads: on the way from...