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...whole thing. It is time to stand up and be white men, not jellybacks." When one of Dr. Coggins' friends asked a county commissioner if he had not eaten with Negroes on hunting trips, he replied: "They eat after we're through." Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins angrily denounced the firing. "I am sick about it ... an evil act," but Collins had no power to intervene...
...individuals, LeRoy Huntington '53 and G. Fred Geisler, reportedly persuaded John Gilbert '57 to secure the film under the guise that the showing was for charitable purposes...
...tainted blood from the earth, the mother tries to kill herself and her daughter. In the novel and the play her suicide was successful, and the story's irony lay in the fact that the lethal child recovered with no one suspecting her crimes. Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy clearly felt that that was too strong meat to serve moviegoers. In his film, both mother and daughter are saved by modern medicine, and then God steps in with a convenient thunderbolt to erase little Patty...
...other matters, however, Director LeRoy has been overly faithful to the play script. Actors march on and off the screen just as if they were making stage entrances and exits. Eileen Heckart, as the bereft mother of Patty's schoolmate, sobs through two long hysterical scenes that may have been effective theater but are merely repetitious film. And, as the horrors and corpses mount up (Patty is planning a fourth murder when the thunderbolt gets her), what had been eerie becomes ludicrous. At the film's end, LeRoy makes his final obeisance to the stage: all the characters...
...Michael T. Kelleher. Before the concert began last week in the 1,500-seat Savoy Theater, Mike Kelleher drew cheers when he spoke of his father who had emigrated to the U.S. from County Cork. Then the orchestra set its gesture to music, opened its program with U.S. Composer Leroy Anderson's Irish Suite, a collection of slick arrangements of Irish tunes...