Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Till the Day I Die & Waiting for Lefty (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, producer). If an out-of-towner had visited Manhattan last week and on three successive evenings chanced to attend the Theatre Union's Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...
...Black Pit (by Albert Maltz; Theatre Union, producer). The didactic purposes of the Theatre Union, a theatrical little Red schoolhouse near Union Square, are two: 1) to reveal to the laity how the other half lives by staging exciting instances of social injustice; 2) to impress some of the broader party policies on Communist comrades by dramatic examples. Stevedore was supposed to demonstrate that black and white workers should and could present a united front. Sailors of Cattaro emphasized the need of centralized direction in Communist organization. Black Pit, another class drama, preaches the need for stern sacrifices...
Less rousing than those of its predecessors is Black Pit's finale, with the militant laboring men about to stage a big strike and the Dawn of a New Day not far distant...
...mobilized for Army duty in 1917. In Hollywood, where he still finds cinema work more satisfactory than in France, Charles Boyer last week finished acting in Paramount's Private Worlds, with Claudette Colbert. Last fortnight, rehearsing a scene which called for him to topple into an orchestra pit, he broke two ribs...
Still a closely guarded mystery last week, this much had leaked out about XP3D-1. It was ordered by the Navy, took a year to build, is considered by Douglas its major engineering achievement. So big that a pit had to be dug in the factory to accommodate its hull, the ship was also too big to be assembled in the company's hangar which is large enough to hold several Douglas transports. XP3D-1 has two 830-h.p. Twin Wasp motors, 100-ft. wingspread, carries eight men, six machine guns, two tons of bombs. Although not armored. XP3D...