Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe play three young women who decide that they must marry wealthy men to realize their altruistic ambitions for society. Their plans for fulfilling their desires should be of ultimate interest to that large section of the Harvard-Radcliffe community bent on realizing similar desires. The individual experience of each of these girls forms a miniature morality play, a soul-searching sermonette...
...excellent proposal to found an Arts Center on a stretch of riverbank land adjoining Soldiers Field Road has come to seem less a cultural crusade than a political power play. Plans drawn up by the Metropolitan Boston Arts Center ("MeBAC"), a group formed to direct the project, threaten not only to ruin local classical drama companies by excluding them from the Center, but also, because of this apparent inequity, to founder the whole project before it gets under...
MeBAC argues that the CDF is the only local organization equipped to carry on a theatrical season of high artistic quality. But the fact is that the CDF has not produced a play since the summer of 1956, when it staged three very fine productions in Sanders Theatre. Mean-while Group 20 has been running for the past six summers with equally high marks from the critics...
...dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism, if he is not completely at home with the witty Doctor's epigrams, still he has moments of great effectiveness. Earle Edgerton and Dean Gitter play the murderers with unflagging grim conviction, though they do not capitalize on the grotesque idiosyncrasies that Thomas outlined for them in the published script, and seem as a result almost interchangeable. The rest of the cast ranges from adequate to awful...
Moreover, a new social order has been created by these devices. Athletes live apart from the rest of the herd, they eat, sleep, and play apart. What is worse, a cult of adoration has built up around the great hockey star or the speedy halfback. Boston newspapers follow their every move, urchins scuffle for their signatures outside the gates of Dillon, and sultry Hub temptresses sigh with desire at their Olympian exploits...