Word: mason
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over its heroine. Said Richard Watts Jr. (New York Herald Tribune): "Lady in the Dark demonstrates with fine conclusiveness that Miss Gertrude Lawrence is the greatest feminine performer in the theatre." Wrote sobersided Harvardman Brooks Atkinson (Times): "As for Gertrude Lawrence, she is a goddess: that's all." John Mason Brown (Post) merely referred to her personality as "a welcome substitute for the Life Force...
Many Manhattan critics, fixing on the intermittent "problem-play" tone of the drama, wrote of it with patronizing witticisms. An exception was the Post's sensitive, scholarly John Mason Brown, who gave Fledgling one of the longest play reviews of the season, said: "It treats playgoers as grownups and the theatre as an adult institution...
...CASE OF THE SILENT PARTNER -Eric Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, insatiable lawyer-sleuth, is very nearly floored by a floozy on the West Coast. One jump ahead of Lieutenant Tragg, Mason solves a canyon slaying and whitewashes his lady client, who was being most foully done out of her common stock...
...BUCHAREST BALLERINA MURDERS - Van Wyck Mason - Stokes ($2). Supersuave treatment of spying in today's Balkans. Major Hugh North, U. S. Intelligence, gets stuck in a Rumanian villa where murder is liberally done for a formula. North finally finds it embroidered on the undies of Contesse di Bruno, who all the time was pert little Connie Fletcher from Kansas...
Hundreds of alumni from north of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Alleghenies will invade Harvard a week from tomorrow to visit classes, attend a symposium on "The Relation of the United States to World Affairs," and dine in majesty at the Harvard Club...