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...does the playwright do this in war time? Because emotional set-ups are a dime a dozen; because the types are twice as apparent as they ever were before. So it looks like the critics will have to wait till this epidemic of symbolitis blows over before they can expect first rate war drama. As a matter of fact, it probably won't disappear altogether until after the armistice...
...week, six closely guarded naturalized U.S. citizens, German-born, went on trial for treason. By week's end the jury (nine housewives, three men) and a handful of spectators had heard the first grim chapters of a story that might well have come from the mind of a dime novelist...
...whole thing is too gaudy, but what spoils it even as theater is that it's for the most part too shopworn. The bright comedy moments and briefly vivid scenes are swallowed up in the pat speeches, dime-a-dozen situations, stagey gestures, footlight heroics. Playwright Williams has let his memories of a hundred bad plays blot out lis memories...
...glove since he began cavalry training at Fort Riley three months ago. Conn's last fight was a bare-knuckle brawl in which he broke his left hand on his father-in-law's head. But when these two fighting men go into action, ringsiders expect a dime thriller for their $40 pasteboards...
...anonymous buskers who worked for throw money, known only as "the old geezer with the dulcimer" or "the lame fellow who plays the accordion in Franklin Square." It bought most of its sheet music (words only) as penny broadsides, hawked by old men & women on street corners, or in dime songbooks. As the nation's customs, styles, manners and morals changed, so did its songs. Much of the song history of the U.S. since the Civil War is told vividly (sometimes leeringly) in Lost Chords (Doubleday, Doran; $3.50) by a Manhattan newspaperman and man-about-town, Douglas Gilbert...