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Robert Shannon, hero of A. J. Cronin's story (little Dean Stockwell and, later on, Tom Drake), is an Irish Catholic orphan, adopted by a Scottish Protestant family. The father (Hume Cronyn), a penny-pinching petty tyrant, sells the child's sole heirloom, a velocipede. The grandmother (Gladys Cooper), a termagant, makes him a green flower-sprigged suit out of a petticoat. The great-grandfather (Charles Coburn), a sort of marked-down Falstaff, heartlessly clips his toenails in the waif's face, but soon shows that this was mere gruffness. The schoolboys tease the orphan about...
...pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute...
...pass on the script of The Assassin, because Shaw was in uniform, "After holding it just long enough to halt production that year, it was passed-with one reservation. In the third act the hero is asked where he got the gun with which he assassinated the tyrant. In answer, sardonically, he says, 'From three medical students in exchange for the address of a Spanish whore.' The Army objected to the word 'Spanish,' explaining that Spain was a neutral country whom we did not wish to offend. They suggested as an alternative that I substitute...
...insisted on divorcing news from opinion, a major operation for a paper steeped in the personal-journalism tradition of the Oregonian's founder, Henry L. Pittock, a goat-bearded tyrant of pioneer days. Under Hoyt the Republican Oregonian gave labor, Democrats, Japanese-Americans an even break - something the Denver Post never...
...Antigone and the Tyrant" is certainly not a completely successful play. It is an insufficient realization of some very high ideals--but the ideals are there, so are Cornell and Hardwicke, and so is an indefinable striking power which can fit only under Aristotle's definition of Spectacle...