Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Detective Story (by Sidney Kingsley; produced by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse) does a full-color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...
...just toward all evildoers. His only real tenderness is for his wife (Meg Mundy); and suddenly, in the midst of hounding an abortionist, he discovers that his wife went to the man before she was married. The psychological tangle that results is too much for both McLeod and Playwright Kingsley; the solution, like the whole setup, is far more lurid than convincing...
...rate of 15 to 20 a day) is Sylvia's knack for picking winners before they reach Broadway. Among her selections: Edward, My Son; Life With Mother; Anne of the Thousand Days; Death of a Salesman; Kiss Me, Kate. For this month she has chosen Sidney Kingsley's promising Detective Story. She has also closed a deal giving her members seats for April's South Pacific, whose author-producers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, are notoriously fussy about what happens to their tickets...
...Leopoldskron Center, run by Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, gets 45,000 Swiss francs (about $11,000) from the World Student Relief Organization, and used to count on private persons to supply the rest. Now, the Seminar has assumed control, and the extra expenses...
...appeal received by drive chairman Anthony Oettinger '51, the Rest Center's director Kingsley Ervin, Jr. '45, said, "The young women students here work miraculous transformations with old and ragged things. I cannot overemphasize that anything is useful, but the greatest need is for shoes, overcoats, scarves, sweaters, trousers, and women's dresses...