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...Copley Productions is merely trying to give Boston a better than average taste of amateur theatricals, they're doing a first rate job. But if they seriously consider themselves a testing ground for plays of Broadway calibre, they're very definitely nestling in the wrong pew. Their offering this week, "Return Engagement," looks like a very bad combination of "Stage Door" and "Charley's Aunt." The title of the play shows at least a sense of humor on the part of the author--it very definitely is a return engagement of something you've seen innumerable times before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLAYGOER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...When friends upbraid him for breaking confidences, Walter Winchell grovels, "I know-I'm just a son of a bitch." But Winchell lets no one cry "Amen" to this judgment. The late Editor Marlen Pew of the tradesheet Editor and Publisher also criticized Winchell as a bad influence on the U. S. press, was thereafter mentioned by Winchell as "Marlen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Columny | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...bands playing everywhere, always, and coming at delegates from all directions; 1,900 U. S. flags hoisted by the city of Philadelphia; a reading clerk, tuned up for the hurly-burly by practicing 30 minutes daily in a soundproof garage, reading Elaine's oration on Garfield; Boss Joe Pew saying, "I am for Governor James until hell freezes over or until we reach the 252nd ballot" - interpreted as meaning that he had switched to Willkie, Dewey, or Taft; Candidate Taft three hours late for his first press conference (Was he making a deal? Had he simply overslept?); Candidate Dewey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: The Trumpets Blow | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...know Mr. Joseph Newton Pew Jr. [TIME, May 6] and it is most unlikely that we shall ever meet. We do not move in the same circles, so to speak, which is, incidentally, more my hard luck than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...number of enlisted men of this battalion are employees of the Sun Shipbuilding Co. It is noteworthy that, no matter how busy the ship building company may be when this battalion is ordered away for its two weeks' field training, every one of Mr. Pew's employees always goes and receives full pay from the company. It seems too bad that there are not more such employers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 27, 1940 | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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