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...Case of Clyde Griffiths (by Erwin Piscator & Lena Goldschmidt; Group Theatre & Milton Shubert, producers). Thirty years ago an errant youth of Cortland, N.Y. named Chester Gillette took his sweetheart, Grace Brown, out in a rowboat, drowned her because Grace was pregnant and Chester wanted to marry a rich girl. For a generation Chester Gillette's crime and punishment were forgotten by the outside world until Theodore Dreiser exhumed the case, wrote a wordy but exhaustive novel about it called An American Tragedy. Since 1926 the Dreiser story of "Clyde Griffiths' " downfall has become a sort of national institution...
...made a melodrama out of the story. A pair of French playwrights made it a character study. A Russian playwright made it a text for Bolshevism. But no adapters have departed so radically from the novel or achieved so exciting a result as the German authors of Case of Clyde Griffiths...
...Piscator is best known as the onetime head of Berlin's great Volksbuehne (People's Theatre), which boasted the incredible total of 250,000 subscribers. A Communist, Piscator fled Germany when the Nazis took over, now carries on his broad theatrical experimentation in the U.S.S.R. Case of Clyde Griffiths bears the Piscator stamp, offers U. S. theatregoers for the first time a comprehensive idea of an entirely new set of values he is trying to bring to the stage...
Most recent Corning product is Top-of-Stove glass, developed by a team of Corning Ph. D.s under the captaincy of burly, wisecracking Research Director John Clyde Hostetter. They were looking for a glass which could be put on the top of the stove (not merely in the oven) and with which food could be served in the same dish in which it was prepared. Experimenting with 1,500 formulae, they cooked 18,000 lb. of potatoes and nearly as much hamburg, fed Coming's stray dogs on the results of their experiments. They cooked on wood...
Applying for a pistol permit, Lawyer Charles Clyde Pettijohn, general counsel of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America, town councilman of Harrison, N. Y., gave as character references Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Will Hays, J. Edgar Hoover and George William Cardinal Mundelein, got the permit...