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...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...
...turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be descended in some roundabout way from Julius Caesar. . . . And we fools rub our eyes and wonder when we see genius come out of the gutter! It did not begin there . . . Shakespeare . . . Napoleon . . . who knows what kings and prophets they had in their ancestry...
...Orange, N. J., Rocco Marano, 30, walked up to a policeman, said: "I've just shot and killed my father. He's lying in the gutter on Henry Street." Son Marano explained that his father had threatened to cut his mother's head off, eat her heart. Father Marano. whose mother was found beheaded in Italy some years ago and whose brother is wanted for murdering his wife & son. had just returned from prison after serving a 15-year sentence for murdering a saloonkeeper's wife...
...Bandy and two mildly poisonous sand snakes. A keeper had found one sand snake when it bit him; a small boy brought in the other. Two of the cobras had been remarked by a woman visitor on top of a cage; the third was prodded out of a remote gutter with an acetylene blow torch by Director Bean who is not afraid to admit, "I am deadly afraid of snakes." The Bandy-Bandy had completely disappeared. Mrs. Wiley had not reported any of these escapes...
Marjorie Bowen recounts ''with scrupulous exactitude" Sophie Dawes's strange and fascinating story in a volume that for originality and vigor makes most contemporary biographies look frail. No hero worshipper. Author Bowen calls Sophie a vulgar wanton, a young slut, compares her with a gutter rat, declares that "her worthlessness and the squalor of her tale is duly recognized by the author." Nevertheless she manages to draw a convincing flesh & blood portrait of her subject. Although The Scandal of Sophie Dawes, for all its impressive documentation, emphatically does not solve the great mystery of Sophie...