Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Till the Day I Die & Waiting for Lefty (by Clifford Odets; Group Theatre, producer). If an out-of-towner had visited Manhattan last week and on three successive evenings chanced to attend the Theatre Union's Black Pit (TIME, April 1), the Group Theatre's Awake and Sing! (TIME, March 4) and its new double bill, he would probably have gone home with the bewildering conviction that the New York stage had traded the sock & buskin of entertainment for the gavel of Reform...
Playwright Odets' Awake and Sing!, the tale of a family of disadvantaged Bronxites, did not employ all of the Group's acting company. And his short play, Waiting for Lefty, was not long enough to be presented alone. So the Group got him to whip together a brief companion piece, issued them both together. Till the Day I Die, the companion piece, passes the 60 minutes before Waiting for Lefty starts, and that is about...
...Admirers of Victor Herbert will not need to be reminded that the score of Naughty Marietta contains, in addition to "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," such minor classics as "I'm Falling in Love with Someone," "The Italian Street Song," and "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp." Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald sing them to perfection and Naughty Marietta can be applauded, like One Night of Love (TIME, Sept. 14), as a worthy example of what operatic cinema can amount...
...Song-singing Bing and Funnyfellow Fields practically make the show what it is. Fortunately--or wisely--Bing is not made to act, but merely allowed to sing and move about harmlessly. These he does to the satisfaction and enjoyment of all. The humorous element of the film is well carried on the capable shoulders of Mr. Fields, who is at his best as the blustering show-boat captain, boasting continually about his bravery. Joan Bennett is adequate in her role as the leading lady...
...Ossining, N. Y., hard by famed Sing Sing Prison, Secret Servants pounced on a counterfeiting plant primed to turn out $2,000,000 worth of $10 and $20 bills...