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They Shall Not Die (by John Wexley; produced by the Theatre Guild). Playwright Wexley bases his works (The Last Mile, Steel) on Causes. They Shall Not Die is an angry review of the Scottsboro Case. On the premise that the rape charge against the nine young blackamoors was a frame-up, the play doggedly follows the pattern of the news from the alleged attack aboard a freight train through the first trial to the Supreme Court and on to the second trial. In fact a Manhattan lawyer named Samuel Leibowitz desperately defended the Negroes against a death penalty...
...Last Mile (World Wide) is a querulous picture of life in the deathhouse. John Wexley's play, based on a deathhouse convict's actual diary and news reports of several prison breaks, was angrily realistic. The cinema has omitted the anger and realism, added hope rays and a new plot...
...whetstone on which to grind axes, but because when a playwright sets out to champion something he usually loses all his sense of humor and proportion, together with his head, in excoriating the Other Side. Having acquired well-deserved kudos for his first play, The Last Mile, John Wexley has now broken a lance against the boiler-plated sides of the steel industry. This he does by presenting the sad case of Joe Raldny (Paul Guilfoyle), a young resident of Ironton...
...Last Mile is written by John Wexley. onetime actor with Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, now playing the locksmith in Leo Bulgakov's revival of Maxim Gorki's At the Bottom, familiarly known as The Lower Depths (TIME, Jan. 20). It is said that his play follows the outline of actual events which took place in Colorado, that he has utilized Death House dialog as transcribed by an inmate. The play is performed by a cast of 16 men. It is an experience for those who can stomach...
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