Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Little Rock, scene of an unfinished American morality play, produced a second act. At issue was a Faubus "suggestion" that the six-member Little Rock school board fire certain veteran teachers. Segregationists expanded the purge to 44 teachers, including the principal, two vice principals and 21 teachers at Central High School. No charges were specified; no hearings were held. The teachers, some of whom have been in Little Rock since the '20s, were simply "imprudent" about integration...
...broad, with good reason, demands triple damages-and wins them from a local court. But Kovacs only leers happily around his cigar, and his lawyers inform her lawyer (Jack Lemmon): "We have the entire appellate structure of the State of Maine before us." Deciding that two can play dirty pool, the heroine slaps a writ of execution on the villain, "attaches" the next train that happens to come through town, parks it on a spur track and challenges the brute to top that. He does. He demands rent for the spur track - $1 a foot...
...done, as usual, a pretty slick job as a straight-face comic, and he would have done a better job-along with Actor Douglas and Actress Reynolds-if Director George Marshall had not decided to play The Mating Game at a speed less suitable to a romantic comedy than to a board of chess...
...after he buys, he will be sold out and his loss cut. "I have no ego in the stock market," he says. "If I make a mistake I admit it immediately and get out fast." Darvas thinks his system is the height of conservatism. Says he: "If you could play roulette with the assurance that whenever you bet $100 you could get out for $98 if you lost your bet, wouldn't you call that good odds?" If he has a big profit in a stock, he puts the stop-loss order just below the level at which...
...with "a finger to his mustache as if to the trigger of a gun"; women's handkerchiefs fluttering from every balcony; grand carriages pulling aside to allow a princess in "working-class petticoats" to lead past a troop of volunteers. And Angelo himself was an actor in the play-without knowing it. Men, argues French Author Giono, can achieve real ends only by being theatrically inspired-and cold, cunning leaders take care to pile on theater aplenty...