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Producing honors easily went to the Theater Guild, whose two smashes, Othello and Jacobowsky, flank last season's smash-of-the-age Oklahoma! Highest acting honors were almost solidly male. In a dead heat for first place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus...
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, for the Theater Guild operetta smash hit Oklahoma...
Although swank establishments like Manhattan's Stork Club were self-consciously unaffected, the real or fancied complaints of what the month-old tax was doing to the nation's cabarets last week swelled louder than a chorus of hot brasses. The American Guild of Variety Artists estimated that jobless entertainers would soon number 15,000. No one expected Washington to lose much sleep over this; the War Manpower Commission has been trying for months to force such nonessential workers into war plants...
This week with the 1,001st performance of Angel Street, Broadway for the first time in history had three shows running at once that had passed the 1,000 mark (others: Life With Father, Arsenic and Old Lace). Also this week, Manhattan's Theater Guild-with its Oklahoma!, Othello, Jacobowsky and the Colonel all smash hits-gaily celebrated its 25th birthday...
...post offices with murals depicting the horrors of U.S. life, Americans pondered the lesson that even painting can be used for political propaganda. In St. Louis last week they proved that the lesson had been learned. Eleven paintings were removed from an exhibition at St. Louis' Artists' Guild. Pretext: their "controversial character." Most of the banned canvases were critical of the New Deal...