Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway producers consider a play in the try-out stage up to its Broadway premiere. Had Reader Smith seen the improved version of And Stars Remain which the Theatre Guild presented in its Manhattan theatre, he might have agreed with TIME'S reviewer that the show was a "bright confection...
After spending a reputed $200,000 in preparations, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer last February abandoned its film version of It Can't Happen Here, a best-selling novel of 1935 in which Sinclair Lewis showed how a Fascist dictatorship might come to the U. S. Indignant Mr. Lewis thereupon offered the play rights to WPA's Federal Theatre Project, which went ahead with plans to produce the play simultaneously in a score of cities all over the nation. It was agreed that Nobel Prizewinner Lewis and his collaborator, Paramount Writer John C. ("Jack") Moffitt, should divide royalties...
...only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles, like Laurence Olivier's Orlando, Leon Quartermaine's Jaques, were played in a more subdued key. To give the screen version a scope that no stage production can hope to match, he allowed Set Designer Lazare Meersom, whose work U. S. audiences have heretofore seen only in French pictures like Carnival in Flanders, a free hand. Brilliantly matched with the glittering poetry of the play are its rich backgrounds-huge dark trees...
...every one of the 101 days of his stay. Opinions on fornication ("I have much more reverence for a common prostitute than for a woman who conceals her guilt"), on gout, gunpowder, tanning, brewing, tragic acting, brought it out boldly. Much of the material deleted from the first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often...
...that group, Individualism breathes Romanticism and Idolization. They do things to be different, yet know not what they do. For the sake of satisfying your own curiousity with a good laugh to boot, may I suggest, dear reader, that you visit your Communistic friend and ask him for HIS version of what Communism really is. Keith Bowen...