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Odets' characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules...
Last week the Board of City Trusts at a special meeting voted to rescind the rent reductions, require payment in full of the $200,000 concessions already granted. Be fore they could vote, old Francis Shunk Brown pointedly stalked from the room. Three days later, looking more than ever like...
The Saturday Evening Post story by George Bradshaw on which New Faces is based contained a first-rate comedy idea.. Its hero was a shoestring theatrical impresario whose method consisted of selling a show to several different backers, then making sure that the show was so bad it closed...
Neutral observers agreed with him. For 73 days the city that had never yet fallen to a besieger had fought off attack after attack. Last week the Basques counterattacked where they could, stormed hillsides, blocked roads with tanks, but their artillery was almost silent and their planes were useless. As...
"I make the statement without rancor, that he worst enemy of the Theatre today is the people of the Theatre. Perhaps the producers are most to blame - the majority of them amateur or near-society dilettantes, night-club habitues, angel-backers and shoestring gamblers, (ith their slipshod, unmoral and, even...