Word: heartbreaking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voice the note of heartbreak-authentic heartbreak, worth its weight in theater gold...
...Last Night in the Old Home: a mixture of genuine and forced heartbreak which contains this line, spoken by a vapid, bitchy daughter: "That's the difficulty . . . there's nothing much they can do. Oh, mother is trying to rub out the places where we all used to be measured against the door...
...Goldwater wanted to retire, spend more time on his hobbies, writing verse and music. But the Mayor could find no one to fill the bill at $10,000 a year. The commissioner advertised in the papers for a $6,500-a-year deputy, promised him "at least one heartbreak a day . . . and at least one hearty laugh a week." Although some 200 men were bold enough to apply, none was acceptable...
Edison the Man is a faithful, even reverent attempt to immortalize the Edison story on film. But like most posthumous at tempts to recreate the creative moments of great men - Beethoven scoring the Seventh Symphony while romping through a thunderstorm, Schubert conceiving the Unfinished Symphony because of heartbreak over a Hungarian minx - Edison's fine frenzies remain, with the past, unrecapturable...
Most important act of the Guild's early days was its tie-up with Shaw. Tackling his difficult Heartbreak House when nobody else would touch it, the Guild produced it successfully, next season took on Shaw's triple-decker Back to Methuselah. Of that play, Shaw told the Guild that his name had been worth $10,000 to them-they had figured to lose $30,000, lost only...