Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original full-length play of any kind. No playwright of whatever nationality came out with a good drama. There was too much luckless trying to read the public...
Capture. In Troy, N.Y., a few hours after somebody stole Dr. Vincent L. Boldt's car, a stranger gave him a lift. Presently the doctor recognized the car he was riding in, directed the driver to the police station...
...show was at its best when Actor Vincent Price (Angel Street) read Saint-Ex's meditation on the Battle of France. ("Victory is a thing of action. . . . But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all, of futility. . . .") First reaction to Flight: favorable. Possible result: other chapters of other books on a new weeknight program...
...Japan is immeasurably more than an enemy in the Pacific; it is much more than the ally of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini." To make his point graphic, Kiralfy triangulates the eastern hemisphere. The apex he puts at Cape St. Vincent in Portugal; the base runs from Singapore to Bering Strait (see cut}. "The Japanese islands are," he says, "and for all time must remain geographically in strategic domination of the vital base line of the Eurasian Triangle." "It is imperative," he insists, "that this Eurasian Triangle be seen for what it really is-a bomb of sufficient power...
...other operas to come: The Devil and Daniel Webster, Stephen Vincent Benet's Faustian tale of a New Hampshire farmer who sold out to the devil, set to music by Columbia Professor Douglas Moore; Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, a deft, bubbling radio opera commissioned by NBC, first given in 1939; Four Saints in Three Acts, with Virgil Thomson's gravely melodious music to Gertrude Stein's nonsensical words; Tennessee's Partner, a Quinto Maganini opera on a Bret Harte short story, which has lain unperformed, unorchestrated since 1934; Aaron...