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...Pirates" now at the Shubert, rather than getting by on clowning, plays up the unique qualities of the operetta, allowing the music to be heard, and even exaggerating the satire of a band of pirates who prefer their trade to "the cheating world . . . where pirates all are well-to-do." After last week, Martyn Green is almost unrecognizable as the Major General. Instead of giving way to capering about the stage, he remains a rather pathetic figure, in or near the clutches of the equally pathetic pirates. The same may be said for Darrell Fancourt as the Pirate King, whose...
...Well-to-do Lady Mountbatten, for example, who gets about $240,000 a year from investments totaling $8 million, pays $220,000 in income tax. This year she will pay an additional $120,000 capital contribution. That looked very much like a capital levy of $100,000. Cripps did not call it that. "The contribution," he said, "is considered to be a charge on capital, and in many cases there will, in fact, be no other way of paying it." The tax will hit about 125,000 investors, bring in more than $400,000,000 (balancing an equal amount...
...class privileged to produce gentlemen. He is as anxious to turn out gentlemen as she was, but believes that they can be made, not necessarily prenatally. Without Mrs. Riddle to make up its $25,000 a year losses, Avon will still have to rely mostly on sons of the well-to-do. Cost of an Avon education (without extras): $1,800 a year...
Machiavellian Father. His life might have been modeled on Poe's. His Methodist father, a well-to-do candy manufacturer, seems to have been not merely an unsympathetic parent, but a capitalist reactionary who delighted in Machiavellian devices to keep his son's talents from flourishing. He put him to work 17 hours a day in a drugstore, with promise of "promotion" to out-of-town selling. When Hart got a sales job, with Washington, D.C. his territory, his father sent him there in the summer when the weather was so hot that the candy in his sample...
Aside from the treatment of its main theme, "Gentleman's Agreement" is one of the few pictures that contains an intelligent and realistic portrayal of the well-to-do semi-literary people who inhabit New York. Gregory Peek, John Garfield, Dorothy McGurie, and Celeste Holm are always completely aware of what is in the characters they are pretending to be. Perhaps they are a little too sensitive to the picture's peculiar brand of hate, but to them it is a casual frequenter of homes and business offices rather than a satanie mouster...