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Clarification. In Jal, N. Mex., after police had put up a traffic sign reading: "School Zone-Don't Kill a Child," they found a postscript written in a childish scrawl: "Wait for a Teacher...
...Antigone and the Tyrant" is certainly not a completely successful play. It is an insufficient realization of some very high ideals--but the ideals are there, so are Cornell and Hardwicke, and so is an indefinable striking power which can fit only under Aristotle's definition of Spectacle. jal...
...ostensibly to treat one of the touchiest of all real topics--death in war. But until some honest playwright can break away from fantastic treatment and false emotionality--to say nothing of avoiding poor casts and stupid dialogue--the stage might just as well stick to musicals and farces. jal...
...Memphis Bound" is the best musical this reviewer has seen in 1945. Without the bathos of "Carousel" or the glamour of "Seven Lively Arts," the play smashes its way into the hearts of its audience with unassuming gaiety and exceptional talent. Jal...
...Seeing You" strikes out boldly not for the deep human feelings for which it could have been aimed, but instead for the grossest and most infantile of audience tastes. It fails where other movies have filed and will continue to fall under the hands of such as Mr. Selznick. jal...