Word: scenes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miami last week, a Federal Theatre labor play, Altars of Steel, had reached its 15th and climactic scene. The boss was barricaded inside his factory. A mob was milling outside the gates. A Liberal swung at a Communist, the Communist shot him, company guards shot the Communist. Ensued a terrific free-for-all which seemed like fine convincing stuff to the audience. And it was. Carried away by the action, the mob had suddenly taken violent sides, started swinging at each other in earnest. When the curtain came down, three limp actors were stretched out on the stage...
...going on tour with the play to Pittsburgh. Before its Manhattan triumph, The Great Divide had been tried out and was panned by critics in Pittsburgh, and Miller was very touchy, about his return engagement there. When, on the first night, people started walking out on his big scene, Miller marched angrily to the footlights, shouted "Are you petty enough to be influenced by spiteful opinions in the local press?" Immediately more people started walking out. "Sit down," Miller thundered...
...designer, returned to the smalltime bands with an itch to make drawings of them. The results were so deep-scarred with authenticity that swing musicians in Chicago last week had them tacked over their beds. Included: a jam session in a cheap hotel room; a street-corner scene of jobless musicians; the interior of the Orange Blossom in Kansas City, one of the midwestern barrel houses where swing flourishes rankly. In this lithograph, The Student (see cut, p. 39), Artist von Physter showed " a white dog named Gunk" at the saxophone learning how to go to town by sitting...
Police soon rushed to the spot from Station 2, and gave the picketers seven minutes to leave the scene of the demonstration...
...plugged corpses in the Saratoga mansion of a Broadway beer baron (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935). With cinema's No. 1 Hoodlum Edward G. Robinson as the beer baron. Warners people the play with a cast of stylized plug-uglies who are authentic Runyon to the very toothpick. Best scene: Baron Robinson and associates deciding whose lawns to decorate with the corpses, making crestfallen Henchman Allen Jenkins stay home and miss...