Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newspapers did not complain when the radio companies got their microphones at the ringside of important prizefights. Newspapers did not complain when football games went on the air, and political speeches, conventions, presidential addresses. But newspapers did complain when Radio began broadcasting news taken hot from news tickers or newspaper headlines. Newspapers viewed with alarm the formation of news-gathering staffs by the broadcasting companies, especially Columbia, which formed an ambitious subsidiary called Columbia News Service Inc. (TIME, Sept. 25). And last week the brewing quarrel between the Press and Radio flared up hotly when Columbia News Service made...
...surely-drawn picture of pre-War home life and a compassionate study of the tribulations of adolescence. Those who do not like it may say that the only reason the play is set in 1906 is to give some actors a chance to wear funny automobile costumes. They will complain that the play is far too long (it has an 8:15 curtain), that nothing happens. Dissenters, however, will be in the minority. At the close of its Manhattan premiere, Ah Wilderness! was cheered to the rafters...
Churchmen who distrust Broadway and deplore the crassness of the U. S. theatre have never found anything to complain about in Playwright Channing Pollock. Especially to their taste is his famed play The Fool, which deals earnestly with a modern clergyman who tried to act like Christ. When Playwright Pollock first got The Fool produced in 1922, critics were not impressed. For three weeks it looked like a failure. Then it found its public, ran for a year on Broadway. Five road companies played it throughout the U. S. for three years. The Fool was translated and performed in every...
...translators and publishers sent their thanks. Author Sheldon amuses himself collecting the various editions of In His Steps. He lacks a Russian one which was banned by the Soviets, would be pleased if someone would tell him where he could get one. Author Sheldon says he does not complain about the ethics of publishers: "After all I had the fun of writing the book and no one can take that away from...
With the exception of Arnold Korff, who has a tendency to throw himself about too much so that the audience is occasionally distracted, and misses the essential action, the acting of the entire cast was flawless. On reflection, it is captious to complain about Mr. Korff; his suppressed guffaws and waving of arms were in keeping with the part of the second-rate good-natured composer. Jay Fassett, Earle Larrimore, and Ina Claire are the principals; be it sufficient to say that they are consummate professionals, that Miss Claire's laugh is infectious, and that a few more actresses...