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...Gloves (adapted from the French of Jean-Paul Sartre by Daniel Taradash; produced by Jean Dalrymple) reached Broadway figuratively picketed by the man who wrote it. Sartre had, on hearsay, denounced the U.S. version as a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias" (TIME, Dec. 6). Though he might justly complain of a translation and a production that (except for Charles Beyer's brilliant acting) are pretty wooden, Red Gloves itself seems pretty typical Sartre...
Jean-Paul Sartre was brooding about the U.S. version of his new play Red Gloves. It had been corrupted, he grumbled from Paris, into a "vulgar, common melodrama with an anti-Communist bias," and he wanted to see and approve a copy of the script before the show officially opened. Nonsense, snorted Producer Jean Dalrymple from Boston, where the show was trying out. The Sartre play had only been shortened, and besides, it was being rewritten all the time. And what's more, she added, Boston had given it "wonderful, wonderful reviews," and it would open in Manhattan this...
Despite protestations to the contrary, the party has been and probably must continue to be preponderantly conservative in bias. This is necessary because of its present composition based on strength in the northeastern middle class and the agricultural heartland of the midwest. Furthermore, it seems likely that a majority of Americans are themselves conservative in bias, so that true conservatism can be described as good politics in the long run. The Republican difficulty lies in having allied itself with a group of essentially stupid, uneducated conservatives who appear to believe that conservative values (which they themselves do not understand...
...them, men like Aiken and Flanders of Vermont, Ives of New York, and Morse of Oregon are the true representatives of the basic American conservative tradition. They believe in the sanctity of the individual, his dignity and worth. They support both democracy and constitutionism. They entertain a continuing bias in favor of existing institutions, but they are prepared to keep open minds with regard to changes in institutions and government. Most important, they have learned that if the conservative values of human dignity, constitutionalism and private property are to be preserved then government, the Twentieth Century Leviathan, must be used...
Sherwood would not deny his bias in favor of Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous...