Word: eileen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other plays this season from The New Yorker stories: My Sister Eileen, Pal Joey...
There Ruth (Shirley Booth) tries to write and Eileen (Jo Ann Sayers) hopes for a stage job. And there the sisters are placed in strange and typical Village jeopardies...
...Sister Eileen (by Joseph Fields & Jerome Chodorov, produced by Max Gordon). Several years ago The New Yorker ran some wry, funny sketches by Ruth McKenney describing the screwy plight of herself and her sister Eileen on first moving into Greenwich Village. Last week Eileen McKenney and her husband, Novelist Nathaniel West (Miss Lonely hearts, The Day of the Locust}, were killed in an auto accident while returning to California from a Mexican hunting trip. And last week sister Ruth's sketches were the basis of a new Broadway comedy hit, directed by George S. Kaufman...
...racking vibrations from a subway excavation just underneath. Drunks leer and bellow in the window. The Greek landlord raves about his paintings that deface the wall. There are uncomfortable visits from the previous tenant, a harlot, and some of her clients. Further annoyances are a drug clerk who brings Eileen unappetizing "specials" from his counter and a reporter whose mind is not on the news. A Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech, waiting for the pro football season, is a tough protector to the girls but insists on lunging through their room in his underwear. Finally Ruth is followed home...
...their former allies in peace. Old hands at character assassination and the literary smear ("General Krivitsky, you are Schmelka Ginsburg!"), they vilified the deserters in cartoons and articles. But with its first-string literati gone, the New Masses was reduced to printing shrill invective by Ruth McKenney (My Sister Eileen}, low growls by professional Communist Growler Mike Gold (Jews Without Money), venomous cartoons by William Gropper...