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...musical will be pr educed at the Boston Opera House and tickets may be purchased at the Hotel Somerset, the Wilder Tester, and the Opera House...
...peace. A. F. of L. faced a fight over racketeers within its ranks. In an attack on racketeering, David Dubinsky raised the lament in the wilder ness heard by John Lewis in Atlantic City. Dubinsky and his fellow delegates from the International Ladies' Garment Work ers Union proposed a resolution giving the Executive Council of the Federation summary power to oust union officials guilty of corrupt practices or "moral turpitude." President Green throttled the idea, contending it would destroy the autonomy of unions. Dubinsky threatened to carry his resolution to the floor for a fight...
...romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...
...opening of "Our Town" was the coming-of-age of the New England Repertory company, which after three years of up-hill struggle has realized its ambition of a permanent playhouse for its list names of eleven authors, among whom are O'Neill, Anderson, Barrie, Shakespeare . . . and Wilder...
...Thonnton Wilder's informal, unconventional "Our Town" is particularly adapted to the atmosphere of the remodeled old Barn Theatre. The simplicity of the play fits the simplicity of the Playhouse. There is no scenery except two arched trellises, pushed onto the stage as director Edwin Burr Pettet said, "for those who think they have to have scenery." A few chairs, two tables, a couple of ladders and a board are the frugal furnishings, images created in the minds of the audience by Mr. Petter's homely descriptions and the pantomime of the rest of the cast build the streets, houses...