Word: saves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he hoped his performance at the Mitchell-Stans trial would be noted by the judge who would mete out his punishment. Clarence Brown, a postal employee, expressed his fellow jurors' feelings: "I liked John Dean. I didn't fully believe him, though. He was a man trying to save his own skin...
...Front Page is a melodramatic comedy or a comic melodra by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, about a hardboiled but purposeless reporter from Chicago who sets out to save an innocent man convicted of murder, or something. It's a fine play, although more or less reliable sources say it's not being done too well--a recurrent problem on the Mainstage. Until Saturday, 8 p.m., at the Loeb...
...suppose I'll save some money buying shoes...
Vrba is compelled to live with knowledge that forces beyond his control thwarted him in his attempt to save the lives of a million people. AsRoh Hochhuth points out in the afterward to his play The Deputy--an indictment of Pope Plus XII and the hierarchy of the Catholic Church for failing to intercede with the Nazis on behalf of European Jewry--everywhere Vrba turned with his report, whether to Catholics or Zionists, he fell on deaf ears. Vrba told me this story as examplary of his experience...
...people don't give one damn about this issue of the suppression of the press, etc..." The Front Page is by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, and all I remember about it for sure is that it's about a hard-boiled reporter trying to save an innocent man so he can get a good story and that it's absolutely classic. With so much good reading already in the papers, maybe it's a little unrealistic, I guess, but what can you expect from Chicago? Opens tonight at 8 at the Loeb...