Word: touche
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Among the crowds that watched the motor hearse go by, there was already talk that some day Pope Pius XII may be canonized a saint. Several instances have been reported of unusual healing at his touch or prayer. Weight will be added to the arguments for his canonization by his reported vision of Jesus Christ just before his serious illness four years ago and his reported visions of the sun revolving in the sky (as it did to announce the famed apparition of the Virgin to three shepherd children of Fatima, Portugal, in 1917). But whatever future learned tribunals...
...worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy, and Daarlin' Man, a musical version of O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock. Some of these may soon...
...good tax base is exactly what Stevens has-real estate operations ranging all the way from buying the Empire State Building in 1951 (he resold it in 1954) to subleasing a vast section of downtown Seattle. But Stevens also has another, special asset: he knows how to put the touch on other people. He raises vast sums as quickly as he can raise a telephone. Says Playwright Marc (Green Pastures) Connelly: "Stevens is a stage-struck shrewdie who brings nothing to the theater but a knowledge of real estate. The only thing you can say for him is that...
That is saying a lot. In the two decades since Max Gordon staged Dodsworth for $59,000 and saw the show move into the black as soon as it began to gross $13,200 a week on the road, production costs have doubled. A Touch of the Poet must take in a minimum of $25,000 a week to break even; A Handful of Fire lost its backers $150,000 before the books were closed. The productions with which Stevens is connected this season will cost a total of $2,000,000 before they all get to Broadway...
Athletes, sex, and a touch of comedy usually wow 'em in the balcony, even those who are watching the movie. But Damn Yankees missed some where. Even the famous and controversial striptease scene fails to come...