Word: berges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Molly (by Gertrude Berg; produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay, Herbert Kenwith and David Cummings) makes stage figures of those long-popular radio voices, The Goldbergs...
Laid in The Bronx in 1919, the play chronicles life in a Jewish family. In an atmosphere of neighbors and noise, Mrs. Goldberg (Playwright Berg) tackles her ABCs at night school; her daughter Rosie starts taking music lessons; her son Sammy prepares for his bar mitzvah. But Me and Molly chiefly concerns the efforts of Mr. Goldberg (Philip Loeb) to set up in business for himself-a shaky venture that, thanks to Mrs. Goldberg, at the end seems likely to prosper...
...middle class that the Goldbergs are socially. It stands where dialect humor and realistic observation meet-or, more frequently, collide; where characters are a little more than exploited but a great deal less than explained. Atmospherically, the whole thing benefits from a certain warmheartedness; as a human being, Playwright Berg shows her characters a respect that she withholds from them as a writer. But what's worst about her as a writer-what makes her play first commonplace and then dull-is that...
Coach Moe Berg's freshman basketballers journey to Brown this evening in an attempt to stretch their winning streak to nine straight games. In Cambridge, on December 6, the Yardlings edged out the Bears by a 54 to 48 score...
Mozart the Modern. He has written five string quartets, a piano concerto and two symphonies (one of which the Minneapolis Symphony played in 1946). He composes in a freely atonal style, admires the hardy music of Schonberg and Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg. Says he: "After all, Mozart composed 'modern' music when he wrote." When friends ask him why he writes like the new masters, but plays only the music of the old, he says: "I play only music which remains for me problematic-only music that is better than it can be played...