Word: playe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, some editors still play the news in the way that (they were taught) will sell papers. They still give a quarter of their space to sports. If it means throwing U.N. into the hellbox, they find room for the day's crimes, knowing that the Sunday News of the World (circ. 7,500,000) was built on news of the half-world...
...play could stand more discipline; along with an absence of formulas there is sometimes an absence of form. And it could stand more variety: only the clash between Blanche and Stanley (brilliantly enacted by Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando) gets real emotion and drama into the play. As in much recent writing about the South, the ugliness is easily offset by the fascination, and the South itself seems warm, vaporous, even visible in Streetcar, like steam on a windowpane...
Died. Tristan Bernard, 81, large-nosed, spade-bearded "last of the boulevardiers," Parisian novelist and playwright; of a heart ailment; in Paris. Besides 50-odd novels, Bernard wrote more than 40 musicals and plays, most of the latter successful, none profound, all witty. His Exile was probably the shortest play ever staged...
...Voice of the Turtle (Warner) presented Hollywood with a Problem which had to be licked with the customary false promises. On the stage, the play owes much of its success to its graceful, believable illustration of how a lonely sergeant and a lonely nice-girl go to bed together. On the screen the young people spend most of their time gracelessly, unbelievably showing how careful they are to avoid just that. The movie is most coyly prurient where the play was most pleasantly candid...
...Sorrow on the Earth), Godfrey Blunden's novel of Moscow and Muscovites in their grim winters of war and political despair (A Room on the Route). William Wister Haines's Command Decision, a tense story of hard choices at an A.A.F. headquarters, was made into a hit play on Broadway. The Steeper Cliff, David Davidson's novel of a search for the meaning of intellectual courage in postwar Germany, was the best fictional attempt to treat of the problems of peace...