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...Mice and Men (Lon Chancy Jr., Burgess Meredith, Betty Field; TIME...
...Sherman Gray 116 William P. Brown, Jr. 104 William F. Ketchum 99 William W. Tyng 91 David T. Gilbert 64 Joseph W. Gardella 58 William L. Healy, Jr. 57 TOTAL 485 INVALID 49 *Elected Sophomores *Loren G. MacKinney 191 *Endicott Peabody, II 150 *Eugene D. Keith 132 C. Burgess Ayres 113 William C. Murphy 110 Peter Macgowan 102 James E. Meredith, Jr. 94 John C. Robbins, Jr. 93 Harrison T. Blaine 89 John A. Holabird, Jr. 81 John P. Bunker 69 John Lowell 60 Louis M. Clay 50 M. Greely Summers, Jr. 45 Nathaniel J. Young, Jr. 43 TOTAL...
Sophomore nominees were C. Burgess Ayres, Harrison T. Blaine, John P. Bunker, Louis M. Clay, John A. Holabird, Eugene D. Keith, John Lowell, Peter Macgowan, Loren G. MacKinney, James E. Meredith, Jr., William C. Murphy, Endicott Peabody II, John C. Robbins, Jr., M. Greeley Summers, Jr., and Nathaniel J. Young...
...Burgess Meredith as George is adequate, but Lon Chaney, Jr. as Lennie is a too-conventional half-wit, even to the throaty voice and harsh r's. The bit parts are the heart of the movie, and from start to finish are woven into powerful moods of pity, despair, and humility...
Fragile enough is Molnar's fantasy of a swaggering, restless, ill-tempered barker (Burgess Meredith) who loves an inarticulate servant girl (Ingrid Bergman), marries her, beats her, commits a crime for the sake of the child she is bearing him, dies, is tried in Heaven, sent to Hell for 16 years, then allowed to return to Earth for a day to try to commit a good deed. The play's appeal lies partly in its letting the audience understand perfectly someone who never understands himself at all -who is bad because he is afraid to be good...