Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the savagery of Spain's abortive revolution month ago, brawny workmen slew several priests, chopped them into chunks and exposed the flesh in butcher shops tagged "pork...
...Living?, tells the story of a troupe of serious actors who completely demoralize a seaside resort, accustomed to nothing but low comedy, with stark selections from Chekhov, Strindberg, Ibsen, Turgenev. After a fortnight, murder and melancholy break out all over the impressionable community. After seeing The Father, the local butcher throws a meat ax at his wife. After seeing An Enemy of the People, the local politico votes against the Government and precipitates a national election. The proprietor of the play pavilion saves the situation by firing the lugubrious Thespians and hiring a circus...
...baby arrives, it is plain that in trying to make her daughters do the right thing, Ma Solomon has made bad matters worse. Florrie's beau marries a wench. Tillie is embittered by her disappointment. Florrie dies despondently in childbirth. Only Ma's old friend, the Butcher Freiberg (Joseph Greenwald) maintains his customary calm, wagging his head as he reads Hebrew prayers in the Solomon parlor...
...intent is fraudulent. It is a sad, but honest anecdote, wisely acted and quietly written, in which Francine Larrimore, tending the Solomon sidewalk cigar stand with puzzled petulance, gives her best performance since Brief Moment. No less genuine than Florrie as self-respecting tenement dwellers are Ma Solomon, and Butcher Freiberg who, when asked for an explanation of the Solomons' misfortunes, voices the dry, dialectic theme of Spring Song: "When you are young, you expect everything from life. When you get older, you expect nothing...
...Colonels McCormick and Knox, publishers of the "Tribune" and "News" respectively, are both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting the editorial shrieks of the papers as gross exaggerations, are going on a "smoke means fire" theory. Only at the universities, Chicago and Northwestern, does one find any vociferous support of New Deal Policies, but this is, of course, highly localized. The Middle West is veering...