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...after her mother. How could Helen Hayes say no? So she will be back on Broadway Oct. 18, playing the "small but juicy" part of Mrs. Grant in the revival of the 1928 comedy The Front Page. Miss Hayes said that her husband, Charles MacArthur (who collaborated with Ben Hecht on the script), created Mrs. Grant as an uncomplimentary portrait of her mother during their courtship in 1928. "There's a line in the play 'I have three tickets to New York for me, my girl and her goddam ma,' " she recalled. "That was my Charley speaking...
WITH their 1928 play The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur set the stereotype of the fast-talking, hardbitten, wisecracking newspaper reporter that seems destined to endure forever. The play was made twice into movies,* was revived this season on Broadway and has been taped for presentation on TV next season. As a police-beat cub reporter ten years ago, TIME Associate Editor Ray Kennedy worked for the City News Bureau of Chicago and the Chicago Sun-Times when the brassy style of Windy City journalism was still very much in vogue. This summer, Kennedy returned to the scene...
Murdered Mistresses. A dull day! The very thought would make Hecht and MacArthur spin in their rolltop desks. Their "supermen with soiled collars" were a callous, cynical lot, born of an era when circulation wars raged and when a condemned man was not simply hanged but, as one daily bannered, JERKED TO JESUS. Armed with phony search warrants, police badges and wiretapping devices, reporters got the story one way or the other-usually the other. They climbed through windows to steal the diaries of murdered mistresses, kidnaped suspects to get exclusive interviews, and planted clues to sustain a sordid rape...
...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, are featured in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in Chicago in the 1920s...
...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan plays Walter Burns, the tough managing editor of the Chicago Examiner, and Bert Convy plays Hildy Johnson, his top reporter, in this revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in the 1920s. The play has a cornball period flavor that adds relish to a high-spirited evening...