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...Review ran in advance a big chunk of Beat Generation Novelist Jack Kerouac's On the Road, printed the first short stories of Playwright James (Blue Denim) Herlihy and Mac (No Time for Sergeants) Hyman. Their office was a back room in the office of a Paris publisher, who locked the front door after 6:30 p.m., forcing Review's editors and visiting writers to depart by dropping six feet from a side window into a stone courtyard below. Unlike its austerely printed rivals, Review early decided to print drawings and illustrate its stories, enlisted as art editor...
...father's big reputation dragged the shy son into his own career, which now stands up solidly by itself with the Broadway triumph of Look Homeward, Angel and Hollywood stardom in Fear Strikes Out and Desire Under the Elms. ¶ John Kerr, 26, son of Actress June (Blue Denim) Walker, is Lieut. Joseph Cable in South Pacific, sprang into films from Broadway's Tea and Sympathy. ¶ Plato Skouras, 28, son of 20th Century-Fox President Spyros P. Skouras, formed an independent company three years ago with his brother, Spyros S. Skouras, 34. CJ Sam Goldwyn...
...Blue Denim (by James Leo Herlihy and William Noble) embeds a troubled teen-age sex drama inside a sociological roundwork. The going-on-16 son of fond but unhelpful parents, Arthur Bartley (Burt Brinckerhoff) takes refuge, when at lome, in a basement hideaway, in a world of beer and draw poker with a pal, of fledgling sex with a professor's daughter. The girl becomes pregnant. Arthur tries to signal to his parents but cannot, then uses a forged check to pay for an abortion. In a suspenseful last act, everything suddenly comes out well-in fact, a little...
...Blue Denim is twin-burner drama: Arthur's relations to his girl provide the plot; his relations to his family, the basic problem. For though clearly the young lovers had far better have stayed apart, the play in the final and family sense is a lament for untogetherness. It dramatizes the barriers between generations, the dangers in families that have no communications system. What with the young couple's agonizing jam, the dangers in Blue Denim get vividly spotlighted and the story line holds. But there is not much at the end of the line, and there...
...situations in which it is enough for people just to be young, or in trouble. But too much is pat or false, rigged up or spelled out; and at the end there is more softness on the playwrights' part than perception on the characters'. Truth, in Blue Denim, is too fitful, put-togetherness too frequent...