Word: miller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Willis P. Miller, 28, pastor of the Disciples of Christ First Christian Church at Lynn, Mass., shared his pulpit with a new "assistant"-a ventriloquist's dummy named Victor who interrupts his sermons and Bible stories with questions, and, occasionally, quips...
...personal angle is everything, that the line of talk is far more important than the line of merchandise. The play shows, too, how in terms of self-respect a man's need to be a big shot turns him, with profound self-disrespect, into a bluffer. But Playwright Miller writes only marginally as a sociologist; in the main he writes with a human being's concern and compassion for other human beings, of the muddle that lies deeper than mistakes, of the self-deceptions bred of more than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death...
Death of a Salesman (by Arthur Miller; produced by Kermit Bloomgarden & Walter Fried) had Broadway in a fever of excitement from the moment it drew out-of-town raves last month. Last week, on Broadway itself, it caused even greater excitement, drew even wilder raves-"superb," "majestic," "great," "a play to make history...
...spurt; it had been stewing in his head for ten years. The script inspired such enthusiasm in its producers and Director Kazan that most of its 80 investors put up the backing without reading it. Some disliked the title and demanded a new one with box office lure, but Miller held...
Mistrusting Hollywood, he and the producers are considering doing an independent film version, directed by cinema-wise Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement, Boomerang). Other Miller projects: two new plays, one a "pathetic comedy" about an Italian worker in Brooklyn's Red Hook section, and a novel set on the Brooklyn waterfront...