Word: playing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important counts Family Portrait falls down. It shows Jesus' family resenting and rejecting Him, over and over to the point of dullness. Worse, with its unbiblical, small-town atmosphere, it reduces Him to the stature of any misunderstood "artist in the family," and the play to a satire on petit-bourgeois respectability. This diminution of scale undoubtedly gives the play piquancy; but it proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that...
...stars on Broadway: Helen Claire in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...
...misleading, for U. S. insurance companies make a nice distinction between claims for golf balls lost in trains, streetcars or barrooms (legitimate) and claims for balls knocked hopelessly out of bounds or into water hazards ("unfair"). They get 50 to 100 claims a year for balls lost in ordinary play, and they pay these "unfair" claims as well as fair claims unless they suspect fraud. Some companies, however, get so mad about "unfair" claims that they will not renew a claimant's policy...
Problems that the board must surmount are varied; speeches must be more sharply worded than necessary on the stare; the number of characters speaking in one scene must be limited to prevent confusion; the time element must be surmounted; all sounds must be mentioned by the characters in the play so that they can be clearly recognized. All these factors contribute to the smoothness of the production and are apparent weaknesses in present radio drama...
...done with the Social Science Committee on their program called "America Goss to War." This, however, is purely temporary and for the most part the committee will be interested in original scripts and the arranging of short stories and dramas for production. Already they are working on an original play by Assistant Professor Theodore Spencer will full permission to make all necessary revisions...