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...school's first director, Talcott Williams, son of a Congregationalist missionary, was a stern taskmaster and a finger-wagging moralist who admonished his girl students not to go around arousing the boys. Williams so burdened his class with assignments that two of its members-Morrie Ryskind, whose lyrics for 1932's Of Thee I Sing won him a Pulitzer Prize, and the late Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky-went on a brief strike...
...Commie line! Morric Ryskind "Freeman", Sept...
...main trouble with The Long Watch seems to be that authors Morrie Ryskind and Harvey Haislip have not quite been able to decide into what genre they want their play to fit. There is neither continuity of style, content, nor emotional response. The dialogue and situations are ostensibly comic until the denouement, when a WAVE falls asleep on the job, causes the death of five aviators including her husband, and ultimately commits suicide. Of course it isn't really a tragedy since for some reason this convinces Washington of the necessity of long-range rescue planes...
...Thee I Sing", the famous Kaufmann-Ryskind play about love and politics will be presented on December 12 by Leverett House as their annual House play...
...Parents Grant and Dunne cannot overcome the ten-little-fingers-and-ten-little-toes plot. Written by Scripter Morrie Ryskind, produced and directed by George Stevens (Alice Adams), it is too often a moving picture which does not move. Skillful direction saves it from turning maudlin...