Word: matzos
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...began to gather. It was always like that in the old days, when there were fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find...
...this is amiably flavorsome matzo-ball soup opera. Gertrude Berg is flawless in her comic timing, wry-arch in gesticulation, a singsong bird of prey who pounces on the feeblest line for a resounding laugh. For wit, there are Jewish folk inflections; for character, stereotypes; for comic insight, racial in-group jokes. Following up on his 1959 hit, A Majority of One, Spigelgass proves that he can bring in greenback gushers without any risky drilling for dramatic art. He is a situation tinker, and his vocation is to be not a playwright but a millionaire...
Milk and Honey flows, in exuberant song and dance, out of a fresh ethnic locale, Israel. Comedienne Molly Picon and Singers Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell star with elan, but the plot is strictly matzo-ball soup opera...
...tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
Happily, the public will get its money's worth. Greeted by Hollywood wise guys with vulgar hoots ("Preminger's matzo opera . . . the first Jewish western"), Exodus nevertheless turns out-despite its duration (four hours, including intermission) and an irritating tendency to Zionist tirade-to be a serious, expert, frightening and inspiring political thriller...