Word: millers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge, the Boston Summer Playhouse brings us their finest production to date. Originally presented on Broadway in 1955 as the major part of a double bill, this powerful story about the complex intrafamilial relationships in a Brooklyn waterfront household provides a jolting theatrical experience...
Experimenting with the form of classical tragedy, Mr. Miller has introduced a pseudo-Greek chorus in the character of Alfieri, the neighborhood lawyer who comments on and occasionally participates in the action. This part is intelligently and movingly played by Dean Gitter, though one might wish he had chosen either to perfect or to ignore the Italian accent. His last soliloquoy was particularly effective, I felt...
This is the first opportunity I have had to see this play since Mr. Miller revised it in 1956. It would seem to rank now with Death of a Salesman. In the true Greek manner, it provides "a proper purgation through pity and terror," a cathartic evening of theatre...
...subject of the story is Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols (Actor Kaye), a hot cornet and well-known bandleader of the late '20s, whose "Five Pennies" -Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden. Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins...
ALLIED CHEMICAL. President Glen B. Miller reported that the company's performance in the second quarter was the best on record, with sales up to $203 million from last year's $166 million and profits up nearly 100%, to $1.67 a share...