Word: east
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seldom ever again. Critics are of little help when they attempt to pass judgment. When Symphony: 1933 was played in Boston, the late Henry Taylor Parker said in the Transcript: "The first movement gives off an American eagerness and boldness and exuberance - of the West rather than the East, where a too insistent gospelling about security has damned adventure and abundance. The finale, surcharged though it is with an inexhaustibly varied counter point, marches gallantly, confidently...
...experiment in technique, a step toward increased realism in writing and production." Designer Geddes has given the U. S. Theatre new dimensions in the realm of naturalism. Displayed on the stage where David Belasco used to draw plaudits for showing real roses in real vases is apparently the east end of Manhattan's 53rd Street. To the left stands the rear entrance of a swank apartment not unlike River House. In the centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins...
...essentials, Dead End is simply Street Scene without a plot. But Mr. Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...practicing journalist who puts a high price on the power of his editorials, he picked up the New Brunswick (N. J.) Times in 1912, sold it at a profit after a clean-up campaign against the local government, moved on to Springfield, Ill. repeated the process, went back East and did almost the same trick with the Camden, N. J. Evening Courieer and Morning Post. The Philadelphia Record was a down-at-heel Democratic rag in a Republican city when Publisher Stern took it over. In Philadelphia it now ranks commercially and politically near the top. His New York paper...
FROM THE KINGDOM OF NECESSITY- Isidor Schneider-Putnam ($2.50). Autobiographical novel of Jewish life on New York's East Side, packed with warm characterizations and bland anecdotes, by a well-known U. S. poet...