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When the Theatre Guild produced Liliom (with Joseph Schildkraut and Eva Le Gallienne) 19 years ago, it found the right tone and tempo. Last week's production does not. Not only does Actor Meredith fail to catch Schildkraut's swagger, and the sets fail to measure up to Lee Simonson's stunning original ones, but the play moves slowly, puffingly, from scene to scene-as though Liliom took his round trip to Hell and back on a milk train...
...seven years, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, around certain poolrooms, bars, candy stores where idle young hoodlums gathered to swagger, play the slot machines, a sinister kind of talent had been for sale at bargain prices: anything from roughing up and terrorizing a racket victim to "removing" a State's witness, killing stool pigeons and underworld rivals. The killers worked for small pay: Pretty Levine, who told reporters he joined the gang at the age of 13, confessed he took part in the Sage killing for a net profit of one dollar...
...complete outfit, from black velvet dress to handbag, swagger stick and costume jewelry, made of synthetic fabrics or plastics...
...Toothy, swagger-minded Grover Whalen, president of New York's World's Fair, in Europe on a busman's holiday, attended the Swiss National Exposition...
...Swagger little President Manuel Quezon last week lodged formal protest against such a portrait of Philippine character through his Resident Commissioner Joaquin ("Mike") Elizalde, who emplaned from Washington for California to talk to Mr. Goldwyn. Upshot: for Producer Goldwyn, another well-publicized tribulation; for Commissioner Elizalde, an invitation to attend, with Goldwyn Executive James Roosevelt, the preview of The Real Glory, in which Filipinos will continue to cower...