Word: singed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good. There is a young man who plays an accordion, and he is a very good accordion player as accordion players go. Then there are three young ladies who are lovely of look at, but not so delightful to hear. Unfortunately they can't dance, they sing. The chorus does a number to "Love and a Dime" which is a novel and very fetching affair. The young ladies prove that they really can dance, especially the blonde fourth from the right. She simply seethes with biological expressions...
...sardonic aspect of the U. S. scene was Success Story, the Group's most promising offering in 1932. The 1933 Pulitzer Prize went to Men in White, which had some bitter comments to make on the interference of Capitalism with Medicine (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933). With Awake and Sing! and Waiting for Lefty, the latter a frank appeal for Communist action to end the abuses of "the System," the Group this year ends its progress Leftwards...
...they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group's lineup since it started. From opulent Hollywood, Actor Tone recently sent back $5,000 to help his onetime colleagues put on Awake and Sing...
...present the most important man in the organization is Clifford Odets, who has revealed himself as not just an actor of bit parts, but as a playwright who can turn out the sort of thing the Group wants to do. Unconsciously he gathered material for Awake and Sing! during his 20- year residence in The Bronx. Now 28, he spent his professional apprenticeship as a spear-carrier on the road in stock and with the Guild, serving as a radio announcer in between times. He wrote Waiting for Lefty while the Group was in Boston last year. He says...
...relevant part of the discussion on prisons which gives the book its only claim to value. The narrative becomes animated and gives the impression that the writer knows what he is talking about without being deceived by the worship of years. The Mutual Welfare League of Auburn and Sing Sing is discussed in a manner interesting to all who have considered the problems of prison administration either from a governmental or sociological view...