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Shakespeare and show business divide the burden in Kiss Me, Kate, which has to do with the out-of-town opening of a production of The Taming of the Shrew. The pair who play Katharine and Petruchio were once stormily married and are still snarlingly in love, and the cuffing and spitting in their performances are more intense than Shakespeare's script requires. With a sharp eye, Kiss Me, Kate kids Shakespeare and show business impartially; and whenever the taming threatens to become too tame, out pops a dancer or up strikes the band...
Light Up the Sky (by Moss Hart; produced by Joseph M. Hyman & Bernard Hart) is a sort of venomous paean to show business. With a veteran's often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced...
First day the new house was opened, 3,000 people filed through it, and 300 of them placed orders. Out-of-town orders poured in so fast that the brothers expect soon to be making 36 low-priced houses...
...candy manufacturer, seems to have been not merely an unsympathetic parent, but a capitalist reactionary who delighted in Machiavellian devices to keep his son's talents from flourishing. He put him to work 17 hours a day in a drugstore, with promise of "promotion" to out-of-town selling. When Hart got a sales job, with Washington, D.C. his territory, his father sent him there in the summer when the weather was so hot that the candy in his sample case melted. He got two new accounts...
Lewis, who has a record of 30 convictions, was released from State Prison in 1941, where he had served a term for carrying a concealed weapon and possessing burglars tools. Detectives closed in on him Friday after hearing that he had just returned from a hurried out-of-town trip...