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...York's Solicitor General Henry Epstein replied for the State with a spirited plea for social justice. Hotly he cited the case of Bethlehem Steel Co., which, he charged, brought 7,500 workers to Lackawanna, N. Y., discharged 6,000 of them during Depression, even tried to evict them from company houses so that it could tear down the worthless buildings and thus lower its tax bill...
...Stars Remain (By Julius & Philip Epstein; Theatre Guild, producer). In Scene II of this bright confection, Clifton Webb, cast as a Sutton Place flaneur, sinks back into a sofa and murmurs to a young woman who wants to take him to a party at Southampton: "I am 32, my dear. My dancing days are over." If imperturbable, emaciated, 45-year-old Mr. Webb's dancing days are indeed over, it will be a bitter blow to those who recall with pleasure his slick gyrations in Sunny, Three's A Crowd, Flying Colors, As Thousands Cheer. In the case...
Consensus on the first play of the Guild's 19th subscription season seemed to be that the Twins Epstein could write dialog as witty as S. N. Behrman's, but were inferior to that oldtime Guild playwright when it came to the passages intended to convey deep social significance. A minority, not impressed by either Behrman's or the Epsteins' parlor politics, was inclined to call honors about even...
Outside of this and a little good-natured jibing, the representatives of the Landon-Knox Club were in no way molested... Irving Paul Schiller '37. Leo Epstein...
...into London's Old Street Police Court doughty John Penfold, an auctioneer charged with warming up a London slum gathering with the words: "I'd turn all the Jews out of Britain! And I'd start with Hore-Belisha [Transport Minister], Sassoon [Undersecretary for Air] and Epstein [sculptor...