Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Mrs. Bryant, the woman whose grievance started the case, was called to the stand, the prosecution objected. Judge Swango sent the jury from the room while he heard her story in order to decide whether it was relevant. It was a tale eminently likely to make a Tallahatchie jury acquit her husband and brother-in-law even if the evidence against the accused had been six times as great as it was. Judge Swango ruled that her story was irrelevant to the actual issues before the court, and did not let the jury hear...
Protagonists in this painful tale are a Pulitzer Prize playwright, an oh-so-Marilyn-Monroe-like Hollywood star, and a plain young man of almost no attributes who attains great success in love and literature through a pact with the devil--in the guise, as one might have guessed, of his Hollywood agent. Axelrod's fumbling attempt to give the thing a measure of significance in the last act adds considerably to the burden of the performers, who have a hard enough time making anything of their lines during the first two-thirds of the play...
...revival of The Skin of Our Teeth, was in some measure a sales pitch for mankind in general. Concocted for the theater when the iconoscope was still a gadget little known outside the laboratory, Playwright Thornton Wilder's crazy, mixed-up parable of the human race is a tale told largely in TV's own terms. Its soap-opera domestic situation, its firm reliance on interpolated newsreels, its constant comic interruptions and its narrow escapes from the maudlin and the mawkish by a hasty retreat into the reality of backstage confusion are all old television tricks...
...Tale of a Tiger (Cont...
Died. Stuart David Engstrand, 50, best-selling novelist who probed dark psychological themes (The Sling and the Arrow, the story of a marriage ruined by the husband's homosexuality; Beyond the Forest, a tale of a vengeful wife); by drowning, when he walked fully clothed into a lake in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park...