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...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
Before the war, Sol Nazerman had been an instructor at the University of Cracow; the Nazis packed him off to Belsen and Dachau, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Surviving somehow, Sol escaped to the U.S. and prosperity; but at 45 he is a grey echo of a man. By day he shuffles about the dusty hock shop that he manages for a tax-wise hoodlum: by night, at the home he shares with his sister's family, he listens stolidly to the family's spoiled and petulant quarrels. On Sundays, he sits in the backyard, reading...
Unsalaried, Unlettered. For four days each week, the peasants must work for the hacienda; they are supposed to get one sol, or 4?, per day for their labor; in practice, they say, they get nothing. In addition, they and their wives must do servant duty in the big house for a week at a time, also without pay. If a sheep strays, or is killed by a fox, the peasant must prove that the loss is "an act of God"; otherwise it is required that he must replace the animal from his own herd or pay in cash...
...favorite dish is lox and eggs." "Dagmar has shed so much avoir-dupoison, one of her best quips is now useless: Don't fight over me. fellers. There's enough for everybody.' " "Gloria Swanson brings her own rice when she dines at La Fonda del Sol." "Ailing or well, she is always Elizabeaut Taylor...
Presently, such productions rarely come to Boston. Both Sol Hurok and Aaron Richmond have publicly stated, says Gitter, that major productions cannot be played here. Those companies that have tried them in the Boston Garden have refused to return...