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Boston's Little Theater, the Tributary, has opened its annual Shakespearean Festival with a presentation of "Othello" that is regrettably poor by all critical standards. To cast such an obviously aged man as Edward Finnegan in the role of the powerful and Jealous Moor is the grossest error in the production and one that grows increasingly ludicrous, despite the determined effort of both the friendly audience and Mr. Finnegan to rise above his handicap...
...half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike, antiSemitism, neurosis, a punch-drunk stockmarket and other cultural menaces. And so, at long last, a strong moral message ("Destructive violence must be fought-with constructive aggressiveness") soars across Father Haydn's sky like a flaming cliche...
...agencies to refuse both Congress and the courts access to confidential information gathered in loyalty investigations of Government employees. Republican Congressmen immediately attacked the order as a step toward "one-man government." The President's explanation: "Disclosure of sources would embarrass informants . . . disclosure of information might be the grossest kind of injustice...
...Force That Does Not Kill. "Here we see force in its grossest and most summary form-the force that kills. How much more varied in its processes, how much more surprising in its effects is the other force, the force that does not kill, i.e., that does not kill just yet. It will surely kill, it will possibly kill, or perhaps it merely hangs, poised and ready, over the head of the creature it can kill, at any moment, which is to say at every moment. In whatever aspect, its effect is the same: it turns a man into...
...Seeing You" strikes out boldly not for the deep human feelings for which it could have been aimed, but instead for the grossest and most infantile of audience tastes. It fails where other movies have filed and will continue to fall under the hands of such as Mr. Selznick...