Word: rage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sink or Swim. His father died after eating tainted Army beef during the Spanish-American War-a tragedy which set off young Fiorello's lifelong rage against profiteering, careless government and exploitation. He attacked the unfriendly world with the dash of a Garibaldi...
Ralph Bellamy, star of Broadway's State of the Union, also had a sunshine-&-shadows week. Hot Organist wife Ethel Smith had sued him for separation, charged that when she played the organ for guests he flew into a rage because she stole the spotlight. Bellamy's own complaint, in answer: though he was busy onstage nights till 11:20, she only gave him till 11:45 to get home, and if he missed the deadline she locked him out. Anyway, Actor Bellamy & highball crashed the Men of Distinction gallery...
...every scene, with an awareness of the pitiful complexity of the causes of even simple evil. The jailers, bureaucrats, magistrates, lawyers and priests who are cogs in the machinery of destruction are savagely caricatured, but each one of them is presented with compassion and understanding, as well as rage. Institutions and individuals alike are shown to be staggering not only under their own intrinsic sins but also under the extra burdens which defeat, and war, and a generation of bullying and corruption, have bequeathed. And the crucial destruction takes place, as it must, in the heroes themselves...
...convicts, brought in for questioning, told another story. Willie ("Peewee") Bell said that he had been the chief target of Warden Worthy's rage. When the warden told him to step out of the group, Peewee said, he knew what was coming. He remembered his own words to Worthy: "Boss, I ain't gonna come out because if I come out I'll come out dead." Again & again Worthy yelled at him. Then it happened. Peewee dropped with a -38-cal. slug in his leg, which saved his life as the guards' pump guns poured buckshot...
Ever present in Kingsblood Royal is Lewis' old, skilled ability to catalogue sarcastically the interiors of middle-class American homes and offices. Ever absent is what talent he once possessed for building characters out of flesh & blood rather than rage and cardboard...