Word: tenementation
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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Love, marriage and financial trouble in a tenement section of Brooklyn. With Marisa Pavan...
...order to bring off an Embarrassment Drama, its actors must be perfect masters of tenement realism, capable of perfectly shaping quiet moments as well as completely uninhibited crises. They need to maintain an appearance of complete fidelity to the surface of lower-middle and working class life. (A life-sized statue of Lloyd Warner will be awarded to anyone who can tell the lower-middle from the working class without a scorecard.) In this second offering of the pre-season season at the Charles Playhouse (the season opens later this month), a group of good actors, capable of many fine...
Brought up in the same tenement, one boy ends in the electric chair, another in the governor's mansion. Why? For more than three decades, the mystery has been probed by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck, Harvard Law School's famed husband-and-wife criminologist team. The Glueck (rhymes with look) team has published three near classics on the subject: 500 Criminal Careers, One Thousand Juvenile Delinquents, Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Last week the Gluecks published their latest study: Predicting Delinquency and Crime (Harvard University; $6.50). Its startling premise: criminal behavior can be forecast almost as accurately as an insurance...
...Raisin in the Sun. There is no sun in this Chicago Negro tenement, but the characters who live there light up Lorraine Hansberry's first play with love, humor and dreams of escape...
...addition to these longer stories the Advocate contains a short sketch by William Kelly about life in a tenement and a demonic child. Unfortunately, the characters have hardly any chance to develop and remain somewhat awkward attitude-figures, not really belonging in this piece which, if it were to be acted, would be Method stuff...