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Ticket scalpers had a bad time, and most of the men who remembered last year's high prices felt mighty smug about it. At 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, a pair of seats could be had for downwards of five dollars. Dozens of big, vividly-tailored dealers were hawking their wares at the gates of the Bowl along with some unhappy looking students, but takers were...
Playwright St. John Ervine (rhymes with "Injun servin' ") ceases to be mild-and well-mannered-only in his irate slashing away at the younger generation (the heroine's smug sons and selfish successor); but the younger generation hits back by refusing to seem convincing. And the older generation, whatever its higher virtues, seems awfully short on verve. So does the production itself, which puts an extra curse on the play...
...Inspector Calls (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Courtney Burr & Lessor H. Grosberg) and, finding the smug, well-to-do Birling family all at home, accuses one startled member after another of being partly to blame for a young working girl's suicide. Mr. Birling had once sacked the girl from his factory. On another occasion, Mr. Birling's daughter got her dismissed from a shop. The daughter's fiance had had an affair with the girl; so had Mr. Birling's son, who got her with child; Mrs. Birling had refused her charitable...
...mustn't be too smug about these revelations," commented Harris yesterday, "and it's important to note that you can't judge military preparedness merely by national income." As the report points out, before the Nazi invasion one third of the total output went to capital goods and armament production...
...steelmakers assembled, with some unpleasant charges still ringing in their ears. The C.I.O.'s United Steel Workers had charged that present U.S. steel capacity (91 million tons a year) was about 20 million tons below future normal demands. The union demanded Government action to overcome the steelmakers' "smug and intransigent" hedging against a possible slump. Walter Reuther, president of the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, had for months been accusing them of promoting "planned scarcity...