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Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even the smell of hot dust, of unwashed bedding and dried food leavings seems to drift out over Manhattan audiences. In this unhurried shiftless atmosphere the events of Tobacco Road stretch themselves with lazy brutality. Compressing in time rather than exaggerating in degree the sordid materialism of lazy back-countrymen...
...story of football at Notre Dame (see above) is one of his more amusing less lurid ones. He has the vocabulary of many sciences technical and social, at his command. Until his present emergence as a Techo-economist he was accepted as an entertaining drifter who lived in Village squalor. For some time he conducted "a small business called Duron Chemical Co which made paint and floor polish at Pompton N. J. Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center was a customer. Howard Scott's job was to deliver his goods show his customers how to use the floor polishing material. He disliked...
...married to a perfect scoundrel. Paul finds he still loves her, but is unable to do anything but make himself unpleasant. He next encounters the rather brummagem woman he thinks his mother whom he leaves frustrated, but with half given promises which nauseate him. And finally after seeing the squalor and sordidness of a mill town and the hypocritical enthusiasm of a Methodist Camp Meeting, he is merely faced with a sense of his own inadequacy...
...Lincoln, famed "Cathedral Town," an unemployed gardener and his wife were jailed last week for "trafficking in illegitimate children." Vainly they pleaded that their only crime was to accept ?10 ($37) as their fee for adopting each unwanted child. On their premises were found numerous adopted babies "squawling in squalor." The indignant Lincoln magistrate declared, "Never in all my life have I heard so discreditable and unsavory a case...
...filthy that after a couple of days on milk and hard black bread I went back to my own place. The doctors were kids. I have never seen any place so dirty as that hospital. . . . How anything fine or good can come from such squalor and misery and defeat is more than I can understand...