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...Hillman, a brash young man in high lace shoes, who spoke hopelessly fractured English, persuaded the strikers to ask for modest terms. This was a great accomplishment. He gained the friendship of Joseph Schaffner, who took a sudden vow to better conditions in all his factories. Finally, Sidney Hillman slipped a clause into the strike settlement calling for a permanent arbitration board, an almost revolutionary innovation in labor relations...
...Invitations to Italian villas were social prizes. Cocktail parties grew more expansive. New and more luxurious nightclubs opened, with tail-coated waiters. Marlene Dietrich, in clinging white lace, was making camp appearances, singing throatily. Ten movie houses for Americans alone had been opened...
...Cabbage Patch. Yet it has, inadvertently, a good deal of genuine religious quality, and is often a beautiful piece of entertainment in spite of its Sunny-Jim story. Leo McCarey's leisured, limpid direction and Steve Seymour's splendid sets are partly responsible for this-the coarse lace half-curtains, waxed floors and seldom-used ashtrays of the rectory are evocative just short of genius. But the best reasons are the loving attention to character, and some magnificent acting. Father Fitzgibbon might have been any brogue-rippling old male biddy. But as Fitzgerald portrays him-senile, vain, childish...
This week with the 1,001st performance of Angel Street, Broadway for the first time in history had three shows running at once that had passed the 1,000 mark (others: Life With Father, Arsenic and Old Lace). Also this week, Manhattan's Theater Guild-with its Oklahoma!, Othello, Jacobowsky and the Colonel all smash hits-gaily celebrated its 25th birthday...
...Arsenic and Old Lace," that delightful story of two New England ladies and their poisoned elderberry wine, has come back to Boston, this time with the New York cast headed by Bela Lugosi. For the people who through some oversight have thus far failed to see the play, nothing can be done in this corner but give an unqualified advice to grab it while it's here...