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...even as theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

...shame and it's a accident," said the Blot, stumbling down the circular staircase, to the accompaniment of peals of thunder. It was getting darker now. In fact, it was getting so dark you would have thought it was last Wednesday night. Which it was, strangely enough...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...wrong, Blot," said the Jester, watching the flames lick up a Good Humor. "That's only the burglar alarm in Roger Kent's. The lightning must have set it off in some manner or other. It's pretty damn seldom what happens around here...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...right," said the Blot, "and here come the police to shut it off. It's a no good dead burglar alarm; let's go bury...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...Army verdict was that Leonski was a "fiend," whose barehanded strangulation of three Melbourne women "cast a foul blot on the service." But there were two other theories about Leonski, one of which may still save him from the gallows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: Mother's Boy | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

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