Word: dozen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glistening, foil. The Kaufman-Ryskind play took a swift jab at the heart of the body politician, and the late George Gershwin's "Wintergreen for President" summed up the whole oompah spirit of torchlit political nonsense in a single musical phrase. The new play pokes playfully at a dozen current problems, much in the manner of the semi-annual Gridiron satires staged by the Washington correspondents. The music, with no particular motif to follow, becomes largely a utilitarian accompaniment to fit the rhyme...
Golden Boy (produced by the Group Theatre) came last week fresh from the vigorous, maturing pen of Playwright Clifford Odets to put up a convincing argument for plain speaking in the spoken drama, for the serious play as a good show. Its dozen scenes sketched the tragic story of a U. S.-Italian family caught in the toils of the prizefight business. Though it sometimes teetered on the brink of bathos, Author Odets' robust sincerity kept it from toppling over...
...Wildent" by this Saturday. Two other outstanding players on this eleven are Purdy at center and Captain Bailey Williams, an end. Williams drops back to punt on the offensive. It is also reported that he is quite a campus figure, hero of the 640 undergraduate males, idol of the dozen coeds...
...found a satisfying outlet for everything that Broadway did not like. He has also included a lot that it did like. The novel runs to approximately 250,000 words, gives speaking parts to more than 100 characters, covers a range of scenes that would wear the shoes off a dozen reporters. Attempting to do for all New York City what his Street Scene did for one of its blocks, the novel is a sort of tabloid morality play, about on a literary level with Felix Reisenberg's East Side, West Side, leading best-seller of its kind, a number...
...stream of his story, Author Rice feeds into them as many tributaries as he can trace down. Thus Christopher's story is fed by his beautiful artists' model, his frigid, hypochondriac wife, his board of directors, particularly by a multimillionaire department-store owner whose business contributes a dozen more stories. The beautiful, shanty Irish gold digger who feeds Greg's story is not so much a tributary as a cloudburst. Corinne's story runs small but fairly clear until it widens muddily when she gets mixed up with a homosexual stage designer. The narrative stream...