Word: tess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree, Grows In Brooklyn (20th Century-Fox), coming from a big Hollywood studio, is man-bites-dog news. Instead of sweetening up Betty Smith's exuberant best-seller and furnishing ten sure laughs for every carefully shock-absorbed tear, such ex-New Yorkers as Tess Slesinger, one of the writers, and Elia Kazan, the director, have turned it into a sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly...
Barring a few lapses of taste, Up In Arms is fun to watch, good to look at. Dinah Shore puts a lot of warmth into her characterization, a lot of heat into the songs Now I Know, Tess' Torch Song. But the heart, liver & lights of this cinemusical is Danny Kaye (of Broadway's Lady in the Dark and Let's Face It), making his screen debut. Kaye's mimicry, patter and general daftness are as deft as a surgeon's incision...
...Walsh Girls has been more highly praised than almost any first novel since Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel and Tess Slesinger's The Unpossessed. It deserves most of the good words given it. It suffers from the same bleak self-minimization that wounds the characters in the story and the town they live in, and the country of which it is part. Just as Lydia seems doomed to regard her life as dreary even when plainly it is not, so Author Janeway ruthlessly stamps out excitement and unexpected humor, like Miss Lydia keeping order in her classroom...
...other day in Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico...
...Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater who had ever read a book...