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Most newsworthy of the five playwrights is Elmer Rice who, by coming into the group, re-enters the theatre after dramatically forswearing it when two of his plays were panned in the fall of 1934. At that time Rice called first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," characterized a Manhattan critic as "a senile alcoholic." Before his sputtering exit, Elmer Rice, Inc. had produced six plays, one of which (Counsellor-at-Law) was successful enough to give him a huge profit...
...find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...
...December day in 1933 when Repeal killed the 18th Amendment, Manhattan theatre critics made an almost unanimous critical suggestion. They suggested that Tobacco Road be relegated to Cain's warehouse, morgue of plays that die aborning. Reviewers wrote off the play's characters as scum, the play itself as "clumsy, rudderless, callow, repulsive...
When the Workers of Capitalistic Democratic countries get wise to the Capitalists and the Capitalists can not live no more by their wits, then these Capitalistic scum of humanity ally themselves with the racketeers and thugs to force on the workers Facism. The degenerate Capitalists and their kind might as well be pounding their dumb heads against a stone wall as to try to beat evolutionary changes...
...years, this strip of tideland holds natural gas and oil worth about $500,000,000. At one time the State tried leasing it to oil companies which did their drilling from piers built out through the surf. Opposition came not from fishermen but from bathers who found oil scum all over their beaches. They raised such a hullabaloo that a law was passed forbidding all tideland drilling. Then in 1933 oil engineers devised a new method of drilling called "whip-stocking," which enabled oil companies to drill on a slant, tap oil pools as much as 1,000 ft. away...