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...culprit looked stunned, shouted, "Good lord, he's gone!" The Navy man let him pass. Reminds you of the story of the guard on PBH steps, who stopped an entering civilian student, with the statement that Brooks House was Navy property. When he found out, he was perfectly affable about...
...window. A tough blonde (Claire Trevor) has proudly saved the newsclips about the murder Meredith learns he is being hounded for. In a Long Island mansion, with the help of a paralytic old lady (Adeline De Walt Reynolds), he at last gets the heat turned on the real culprit...
Sometime late Saturday night, when things were going pretty well at the Eliot House formal, some Elephant big-wig made fervent promises to a similarly important 'Cliffette. The promises got across, and caught up with the culprit finally yesterday, in the form of a big, bold truck...
...wood winds sound ragged, he stops the players, explains to the culprit that he has been playing piano instead of mezzo forte, achieves on the next try a precise, organlike tone. If the first violins are a hair short of unity, he singles out the lagging fiddler, points out that an improperly held bow is causing his late entrances, illustrates by drawing his baton across his left...
...plainly the chief culprit. It upset playwrights, rattled producers, discouraged audiences. Not a single new show produced after Pearl Harbor was a hit. But (and for this the war wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original...