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...best writers. There has been an equivalent growth in price, so that each issue now costs fifty cents. Unfortunately, in the latest issue the size of the magazine continues static: Identity is as dainty as it was in the days of its sickly youth, publishing only a brief one-act play by Charles Mee, Anyone! Anyone!, Mark Mirsky's very short story, Shkootz, and Caroms, eight poems by Stephen Sandy...
...theatrical group will present the original one-act plays at the former Poets' Theatre next week, August...
...Vanzetti case. He felt, like many other Americans, that the two anarchists were innocent and "were not being executed for what they were tried for" (shooting down a paymaster and his guard in a 1920 payroll holdup in South Braintree, Mass.). In 1932 Blitzstein used the theme for a one-act opera titled Condemned. The work was never produced (it was burdened with, among other things, four choruses), and Blitzstein says he forgot all about it. Last summer an Italian critic reminded him of the work, and he immediately began thinking of a longer opera based on the same theme...
...Carney Show (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). One more exercise of Carney's consummate dramatic versatility. Jackie Gleason's former second banana is top man in three one-act plays: Sean O'Casey's A Pound on Demand, Noel Coward's Red Peppers, Eugene O'Neill's Where the Cross Is Made. Color...
...main trouble with the picture is not its subject or its style, but its length. In the 70-minute, one-act play that Williams wrote, the action slithered about the spectator with the speed of a big snake, crushing in its clammy coils. In the 114-minute movie it glides along so languidly that the audience has time to wonder about what is happening; and to wonder about this story is to realize that it is nothing more than a psychiatric nursery drama, a homosexual fantasy of guilty pleasure and pleasurable punishment. The dead hero is really no more than...