Word: ungerer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seventh Heaven (music and lyrics by Victor Young and Stella Unger; book by Victor Wolfson and Miss Unger; based on the play by Austin Strong) never, with the help of music, achieves the schmalz that the play and movie versions achieved without it. The idyl of a young girl of the Paris slums and a sort of young king of the sewers-who comes home blind, at the end, after World War I-leaves the audience not only dry-eyed but pretty heavy-lidded. It even lacks the appeal of something sweetly out of date. The reason, perhaps, - is that...
...lyrics by Stella Unger are similarly undistinguished. (A representative sample went something like, "I'll fly from the blue horizon/ to the isle of I-love-you.") Miss Unger also co-authored the book, together with Victor Wolfson, basing it on a memorable old tear-jerker of a play which was later made into a movie. The present rehashing of the story about a World War I affair between a chanteuse of doubtful reputation and a Parisian sewer-cleaner has lost most of the pathetic appeal of the original. Instead, the authors introduce a trio of prostitutes for comedy relief...
...CHARLES F. UNGER...
...author-lecturer, who has denied frequent accusations of his being a Communist, expressed "faith that our courts will ultimately uphold my position." Also indicated with Lamont were Attorney Abraham Unger and Albert Shadowits of Nutley...
...September 23, 1953, Lamont appeared before the McCarthy subcommittee, where he refused to answer some 23 questions. The Senate voted contempt citations against Lamont. Unger, and Shadowits last August 19, on which the grand jury proceeded to indict them...