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With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
...Weston Liggett. branch manager of a tool manufacturing company, father of two daughters and husband of an unloved Boston girl. Gloria was one of a succession of casual and some-times painful affairs. Increasingly attracted to her. he never understood her, was shocked at her theft. When (hey quarreled about it in a speakeasy Weston got into a fight, was badly beaten up, stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when he hunted for Gloria, found her at last on a dingy Boston boat, in time to quarrel with her again and witness...
...volume to his unique and invaluable set of contemporary plays. Since 1918, he has selected, with the aid of his newspapers colleagues, the "ten best plays produced in New York City" each year, limiting this choice of course to new plays in the English language. There is usually little quarrel with his selections. The Pulitzer Prize play is always included. Most of the other plays are outstanding popular successes or artistic triumphs which won special praise from the chosen few. Of course there is not room enough to give the complete text of each play, but there is no fault...
...most amusing spectacles on the U. S. stage has been Mr. Lunt licking Miss Fontanne, their fantastic rowing in The Taming of the Shrew is some-thing to see. Also something to see is the pair of them mounted in a little golden chariot at the finale, their quarrel mended, headed upward through a painted sky to further and more fabulous adventures...
...grew up with the fixed belief that in the world of the theatre, work and play were the same. The belief stayed with him after he had been laughed off the Parisian and provincial stages, written a hit at the age of 20, lived through a 13-year quarrel with his father, known most of the theatrical great of his day, become the most famed of French actor-directors and playwrights...