Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having delivered himself of that, which may have been a taunt, he posed for news photographers. For a man who had once tried to knock out a photographer, he was unusually gracious. He posed for half an hour and even strode across the street to pose sitting on a park bench reading the funny papers...
...Peter Arno's roughshod rides over the horsey set, the classic caricature never dared approach "Park Avenue" in naked triteness. Twenty years late, playwright George Kaufman and composer Arthur Schwartz are endeavoring to sell the public a brand of musical comedy that has long been by the way, and that must be hyper-professional to satisfy...
...Park Avenue" concerns itself with top-drawer sassiety and the casual interpretation of the marriage knot which has long been characteristic of stage aristocrats. Through two overdrawn acts, Mrs. Sybil Bennet of Oyster Bay joins a covey of her lady friends in pulling off matrimonial deals and counter-deals fairly devastating in their nonchalance...
...Home Abroad." Kaufman has hit pay-dirt consistently through two decades of the American tunitee;" and Leonora Corbett, the other-worldly bank on the smartness, sophistication, or schmaltz of another day, differently tempered--or perhaps the Messrs. Kaufman and Schwartz are, plainly and bluntly, "written out." Whatever the explanation, "Park Avenue" has tunes and situations that smack far too conspicuously of past playgoing...
...Ralph Washington Sockman, whose Sunday morning Radio Pulpit (NBC) pulls 4,000 letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...