Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the grandstand play. The Russians decided to close all their consulates in the U.S. and to deny the U.S. the privilege of consular representation in the U.S.S.R...
Last November, with help from the therapists and a Detroit Conservatory professor, Ernest started something bigger. Last week at the Michigan State fair grounds he heard the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play excerpts from his first symphony, to an audience of 10,000. The music was pretty murky in spots, and full of borrowings from Tchaikovsky. Said Conductor Valter Poole, "It interested me as psychiatry, not as music." But the audience gave Ernest an ovation. Said he in a bashful curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I enjoyed the playing of the symphony . . . Have confidence in mental hospitals-it did me good...
...quarrel. A Broadway actress (Rosalind Russell), famous as a drawing-room-comedienne, wants to move on to roles like Hedda Gabler and to move out on her producer and ex-lover (Leon Ames). He tells her contemptuously that he made her what she is, that she couldn't play Hedda for peanuts, and that if she leaves him he will publicize her Past. At this point Rosalind crowns the rotter with a statuette...
...fairly suspenseful and entertaining. But all the intelligence and talent are wasted in putting a high polish on emptiness. The show is a solid necklace of carefully matched cliches. Rosalind Russell is competent in her rangy, highly stagy role, but she skillfully avoids proving whether she can, or cannot, play Hedda...
...Largo. A veteran recovers his self-respect fighting gangsters. Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor & others do fine work in John Huston's adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play (TIME...