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Although Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer are excellent in their representation of life as Inge has painted it, he allows his theme to come out too bluntly. The first scene reveals a dream of Miss Booth's in which she is walking with her dog, Sheba. As they slowly begin their trip, Sheba is admired, but as they walk faster and faster, passing many blocks, Sheba becomes lost. Miss Booth calls for Sheba to come back, just as she is trying to call her youth back, but events have passed since she has achieved this admiration and Sheba does...
...able to understand his theme, and therefore he supplies us with this all-enclosing, but unnecessary analogy. Fortunately this comparison is packaged into two short lumps, that of the first scene and one in the last in which she sees that Sheba is dead and her husband Sidney Blackmer (her present life) is taking its place. Because of this condensation however, interest in the play itself is diminished...
...committee consisted of Kenneth F. Borg '50, chairman William R. Polk '51, Donald Blackmer '52 J. Cooper Blankenship '51, and Frank H. Wood...
...moment Henry Blackmer had put off for 25 years. His fists clenched, the half-blind, old oil millionaire last week stood up for sentencing in a Denver courtroom. The man who fled to France in 1924 to avoid questioning in the Teapot Dome oil scandal had voluntarily flown home seven weeks before to face perjury charges on his income tax (TIME, Oct. 3). The court agreed with the U.S. attorney that the evidence was perhaps too weak to support the charges, agreed too with a doctor's report that "any substantial period of confinement" would cause Henry Blackmer...
...Therefore, I do not believe the ends of justice would be served by sentencing the defendant to jail," said the judge. Instead he fined Blackmer $20,000. Blackmer's attorney whipped out two $10,000 cashier's checks, drawn on a New York bank, and paid the fine. Old Henry Blackmer walked out of the courtroom, a free man-not exactly vindicated, but at least paid...