Word: snell
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...begins when Wick Snell, a laconic newshawk, leaves his job to become a press agent. The next act discovers Public...
Relations Counsel Snell, in a chintz and mahogany suite, giving a party for the newspaper boys and abusing his employer. At the end of the play, he is back again in the city room with his feet on a desk and his snout in a telephone. A news rag, one gathers, is as inescapable as a winding sheet; the adherents of the prying profession hate their task but they cannot leave...
...pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play a crumpled fellow, who, on the occasions when he turned his front to the audience, generally had his mouth too full to talk. This mousy character...
Administration-Man Snell announced...
...Snell enumerated appropriation bills still pending, as follows...