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Once scorned among Catholics themselves as "dreary diocesan drivel," the U.S. Catholic press has grown in variety, liveliness and readability. Many Catholic papers draw enough advertising to turn a steady profit; where they do not, the church pays their deficits. The press still suffers widely from what Bishop Dwyer called "a good deal of pious incompetence." But the intellectual weeklies-the liberal lay Commonweal and the Jesuit-edited America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan...
...ride the galloping, scarlet and gold clad roundabout horses, or fail to win a thing at any of the booths . . ." The booth marked "Modern English Theatre," O'Casey seems to believe, is rigged by a bunch of gyp-artists. First off, there are the critics, "death-or-drivel boys gunning with their gab from their pillboxes . . . those who take a step forward to enthrone imagination in the theatre and make it more of a temple and less of a den of thieves." Actors are bad actors: "They talk as themselves, dress as themselves, move about as themselves, and feel...
...Frank Loesser could ever hope to get away with this offensive drivel, based on Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted, is mystifying. But he does, with some success, and the achievement is a tribute to his resourcefulness. The Loesser book is virtually non-existent, his music often ordinary, and his lyrics scarcely distinguished. However, the production itself, directed by Joseph Anthony, is lavish and superbly polished. Though the play lacks the three or four show-stopping songs which make a musical into a classic, through its immensity of scope and professional flashiness, it is a success...
...Communists themselves. Recently Sogno got enough funds to buy up the entire poster space in Rome for five days, and put up 6,000 posters devoted to the past of Italy's top Communists. At first, the Reds said disdainfully that they would not reply to such "drivel," but lately they have felt driven to long and unconvincing refutations. Palmiro Togliatti, once quick to sue defamers, has so far not sued Edgardo Sogno-a fact which convinces innumerable Italians that Sogno's statements are essentially correct...
...Captain Joseph Miller, Schine's first company commander, McCarthy was less friendly. Miller, a com bat medic in World War II, a platoon leader in Korea, described life with Schine in restrained terms, but showed signs of inward boiling when McCarthy baited him by calling his testimony "drivel...