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Died. J. Edward Bromberg, 46, veteran character actor, who was brought to the U.S. from Hungary at the age of two, worked as a silk salesman before getting a start in the Provincetown Theatre, appeared in numerous plays written by his friend, Clifford Odets (see above), got good notices from the critics for his parts in Men in White and The Royal Family, bad notices from the House Un-American Activities Committee for refusing to say whether he was or was not a Communist; of a heart ailment; in London, where he was playing an undertaker in The Biggest Thief...
Carnival, an escape into childhood by a Chicago advertising man named Georg Bromberg, was pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...Odets' rage and revulsions are wasted: some of his Hollywood villains-including a cynical hatchetman and a ruthless cinemagnate (well played by Paul Mc-Grath and J. Edward Bromberg) are vividly caught or caricatured. Now & then, along with some "poetic" writing that is as unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely...
...have been more powerful had Leo the lion devoured the hero on stage. If Mr. Odets primary purpose was to expose, in his own way, the minds that govern the film industry, he has succeeded. Marcus Hoff, of Hoff Interprises, and his henchman, very ably played by J. Edward Bromberg and Paul McGrath respectively, are two characters not likely to be forgotten...
...lyrics. Miss Segal's stage presence and ability to toss off lines shame the rest of the east, although she is given practically nothing clever to say and even less to sing. On a basis of personal attractiveness and or capacity to sing, dance, or be funny, J. Edward Bromberg, Warde Donavan, Alma Kaye, and Margaret Phelan seem highly unsuited to musical comedy. Towering Frank Marlowe's amusing facial expressions and amazing Falls put over a questionable production entitled "I wanna Go to City College," and Gus Van did well with a quaint ditty called "MuInerney's Farm...