Word: sklar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Current Trends in the American Theater" will be the subject of an address by George Sklar, co-author with Paul Peters of the revue "Parade," at 4 o'clock this afternoon in Phillips Brooks House under the auspices of the Harvard and Radcliffe chapters of the National Student League...
...book (product of the combined efforts of Paul Peters, George Sklar, Frank Gabrielson, and David Lesan) although arranged in the conventional form of independent sketches, has a definite and consistent undertone of social consciousness. Starting off with biting and amusing satire on the devious methods of the New Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic...
Stevedore (by Paul Peters & George Sklar; Theatre Union, producer). It is an ironical fact that propaganda is always most enthusiastically received where it accomplishes the least. Stevedore, a drama of Negro peonage in the South, will certainly never be produced in New Orleans, on the docks of which its scene is laid. But it may deservedly run for months in the Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street, with febrile audiences largely recruited from the neighborhood. Union Square, centre of racial tolerance, is little more than a tear gas bomb's throw away...
Peace on Earth (by George Sklar and Albert Maltz; produced by the Theatre Union) is another clumsy propaganda play dedicated to the proposition that capitalism is a shell game. Its authors, Yalemen, take a mild, busy college professor (Robert Keith) as their representative of the Right. They persuade him a little toward the Left, involve him with stevedores striking against War, with Communists, with a radical friend who is murdered by the Interests. Tarred with the Left brush, he is crushed by his onetime comrades of the Right. His college classmates, holding a reunion, dress as cowboys, get drunk, mumble...
Officials of the State Bank were delighted with Comrade Sklar's idea. Lawyer Recht saw it as his only chance to get rid of $3,000,000, agreed to the plan. Said...