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...whom he dug up from mines, slums and back-alley pubs. Parnes guarantees each of the hipsters $2,800 his first year, $11,200 by his third year, plus 60% of all recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better, but no late nights and no alcohol"). He also works like a sand hog to get them bookings in nightclubs, on TV, and even in straight plays. Says 27-year-old Parnes...
...Susskind in the darkness of NBC's vast Brooklyn sound stage one long, tense afternoon last week. Around him rolled the final rehearsals of Kraft Theater's Part 2 of All the King's Men, Novelist Robert Penn Warren's case history of a Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places, dears. From the top, daddy-O, and punch...
...single argument runs through both the re-printed reviews and the longish essay which concludes the book, it is a plea for honesty. Mr. Bentley asks that Broadway examine itself in the light of the great theatrical traditions of the past, which, by showing what roles the art of the drama has filled in other societies, can teach us what it should be in our own. It is this plea, and the depth of his insight, which makes the reviews gathered in What Is Theatre? worthwhile reprinting and re-reading...
...minute soap operas to its already numbing roster. Like all sudsy sagas, these two have portentous titles (As the World Turns and The Edge of Night), vibrant organ "stings" at emotional moments, and time-consuming dialogue ("Penny, sometimes I don't get you." Penny, after a longish pause: "Sometimes I don't get myself"). Much of the nighttime drama was equally soapy. Robert Montgomery Presents featured Henry Jones as a lack-wit garage mechanic who first fails in an attempt to murder his wife, and then wants her to live when she has a near-fatal accident. Climax...
Russell rounds off Nightmares with two longish fantasies about the future of the world. They predict plenty of heavy going during the next 4,000 years, and as fiction they read like their prediction...