Word: inheritence
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...shadowy, secretive world of Reinhard Gehlen, it is often hard to distinguish legend from fact. Some Gehlen agents are ex-Communists as well as ex-Nazis; others have been double agents. But there is little doubt that the newly sovereign West German Federal Republic will inherit one of the most efficient intelligence organizations in the world...
...season's first smash hit, The Boy Friend, saw its author locked out of rehearsals with a detective guarding the door. Silk Stockings was more spotlighted during its harassed tryout than are most hits at the peak of their run. Such so-so plays as Anastasia and Inherit the Wind packed enough second-act wallop to have the whole town talking. House of Flowers featured gorgeous rival bordellos, Lunatics and Lovers a bubble bath onstage...
Grandfather's inheritance dwindled to a fraction, but Frank expected some day to inherit a share of his father's large fortune. Instead, by the terms of his father's will, he was cut off in 1927 without a penny. The will stipulated that, if he worked at least half the time, he would come into his inheritance of half a million dollars at the age of 65-in 1955. "Imagine my surprise!" he said. "I certainly would not have spent all my money except that I expected to get father's inheritance. Father gave...
...Inherit the Wind (by Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee) flashes back across history to 1925 and the celebrated "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tenn. The locale, to be sure, is unspecified in the play and the names are fictitious, but there is never for a moment any pretense of fiction. John T. Scopes, the young schoolmaster who violated Tennessee law by teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is called Bertram Gates; Henry Drummond, the lawyer who defends him, is clearly Clarence Darrow; and by whatever name, the archdefender of fundamentalism would be William Jennings Bryan...
Aside from its big scene, however, Inherit the Wind loses from being more documentary than creative. It is too journalistic in tone, too diffuse and shapeless in movement. Under Director Herman Shumlin's able supervision, there are plenty of vivid snapshots and plenty of lively moments, but the play provides no sustained drama. And what does seem fictional seems all too much so: a vapid love story between Scopes and a hard-shell preacher's daughter; a Mencken who talks more like a smarty-pants cribbing from the real Mencken's prose. But if Inherit the Wind...