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Arriving in Berlin on his triumphal tour of Europe, Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, June 25) ran into some peculiar local customs. In the first round of an exhibition match, he floored Germany's Gerhard Hecht, who promptly claimed that he had been fouled. When Robinson protested, the referee explained that a kidney punch is illegal in Germany, adding: "I have to call it a foul. I want to leave the ring alive." When Robinson flattened Hecht again, after an impromptu, one-minute rest period, he soon found out what the referee meant-and learned a little...
Twentieth Century. Gloria Swanson and José Ferrer pacing a revival of Hecht & MacArthur's gaudy, high-spirited 1932 spoof of show business (TIME...
Equally funny is a revival of Hecht and MacArthur's Twentieth Century, starring Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson. (Fulton...
Twentieth Century (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur, based on a play by Bruce Milholland) turned up, after nearly 20 years, as a pleasant Christmas surprise. Its revival also seemed a sort of desperate remedy. It is as near to rich, round entertainment as the American National Theater and Academy has come. It is also about as far from what ANTA should be doing as so high-purposed an organization could go. Twentieth Century is a brazenly commercial farce, made into a sure thing with Jose Ferrer's sturdy reputation and Gloria Swanson's sudden new fame...
King Lear, with Louis Calhern in the lead role, opens Chritmas day. One day earlier the ANTA playhouse will follow Judith Anderson with Jose Ferrer and Gloria Swanson in Hecht and MacArthur's Twentieth Century. For those who like Ibsen, and that includes most of the theatre-going public, An Enemy of the People co-stars Frederic March and his wife, Florence Eldridge, in a special adaptation by Arthur Miller...