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Know Thyself. In Dallas, Edward C. Parrish decided that he was really getting just too drunk & disorderly, phoned the cops, had himself arrested...
Most notable performance (and the one which best shows off Director Wyler's skill) is given by ex-Paratrooper Harold Russell, 32. Cast as a handicapped sailor named Homer Parrish, Russell actually plays himself. He is no actor and no one pretends that he is, but his performance is more affecting than any professional's could be. Director Wyler merely surrounded Russell with plot and let the cameraman follow the calm, strong, unhandsome Russell face. The audience fills in all the emotion that is needed as the unembarrassed camera studies the two skillfully articulated metal hooks that Russell...
Everything had a picture-postcard look: the walled city of Quebec, brooding on its cliff above the St. Lawrence; the Maxfield Parrish mountains of the Gaspe; storybook hamlets, and fishing fleets lying like a school of minnows in the bay. There were oxcarts and outdoor ovens, pea soup and acres of cod drying in the sun. And there was Montreal, second biggest French city in the world, with the biggest black market in Canada...
Maid in the Ozarks (by Claire Parrish; produced by Jules Pfeiffer) reached Broadway after five years of racketing about the country (TIME, March 29, 1943). Before running up the curtain, Producer Pfeiffer set a Broadway precedent by running down the play. Said his outsize newspaper ads: "The management of Maid in the Ozarks believes that the . . . critical consensus will be that this . . . is the worst play that has ever hit Broadway...
Despite consistently brutal reviews, Maid has played to six million people, and started Ozark-born Playwright Parrish on the way to becoming a hillbillionaire. In Manhattan last week, the management advertised "Seats Now Selling 8 Years in Advance," with "Special Spicy Mats...