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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paradise Lost (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, producer) is Opus No. 4 in the collected works of a young man who is currently the U. S. Drama's white-haired boy. With two one-acters (Waiting for Lefty, Till the Day I Die) and one full-length play (Awake and Sing!) behind him within a twelvemonth, with his ears ringing with more critical praise than many an older playwright has achieved in a full career, 29-year-old Clifford Odets undertook to explain to metropolitan critics just what his latest play was about. On the eve of Paradise Last...
...Toledo's Baltimore & Ohio railroad yards. Locomotive Engineer E. A. Black saw Jesus Luna nagging a small boy to buy narcotics, chased Luna on foot and lost him, ran back to his locomotive, chased Luna with the locomotive, caught...
...human and entertaining than the other characters discussed in the book, while his essays on Wells and Conrad are uniformly dolorous and give little life to either. It may be news to most readers that a strong factor in Wells's social thought was the organization of the Boy Scouts; that in 1909 Conrad's earnings from his 13 published works amounted to less than ?5. Among English writers who took themselves, their ideas and art with great solemnity, the young Shaw appeared as a wild man, a 27-year-old Irishman who "had nailed the Red Flag...
...about "Remember Last Night?" Take a look at the last page of the last CRIMSON, and you'll see the key to the difficulty. Eleven heads depicted!--Eleven major characters, each doing his level best to bewilder the unfortunate spectator. All detective movies befuddle us. But this one--oh boy! After studying intently those aforesaid faces in the CRIMSON, it is still impossible to pick out the first and principal of the numerous murder victims. And as for the villain, when he and his infernal craft were bared on the screen, we absolutely could not recall having seen him before...
...Shaughnessy's Boy" is unfortunately waterlogged with tears and therefore heavy. Nobody minds a little pulling of the heartstring, but there is decidedly too much of it in this picture. Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper do the best they can, however, and one wishes that their touching friendship might be depicted in terms a little less soggy...