Word: yorkerism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author of more than a dozen Broadway plays since 1926, Behrman is currently represented on the New York stage by The Cold Wind and the Warm, starring Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. The work is a dramatization of several of the author's contributions to The New Yorker magazine. They were later published in book form as The Worcester Account...
Died. Edward John Noble, 76, upstate New Yorker who pooled funds with a friend, bought the Life Savers Co. in 1913 for $2,900, poked a hole in the candy mints, packaged them brightly, watched his business grow into Beech-Nut Life Savers, Inc. with sales well over $100 million a year; in Greenwich, Conn. Owner of one of the first Autogiros, Yaleman Noble had a lifelong interest in aviation, was made first chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Authority in 1938, also served for a year as first Under Secretary of Commerce. In 1940, Republican Noble quit the Roosevelt Administration...
Marya Mannes, in The Reporter, took a position strongly favorable to the play but just as strongly unfavorable to the production. Kenneth Tynan, the London Observer's notoriously excoriating critic currently on loan to The New Yorker, took the opposite tack: "In every department the presentation is flawless. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of the thing presented." Whereupon he let fly with a long barrage of his famed artillery at the play's content...
...Medal for Admen-bearing a bas-relief of St. Bernardino, and advertised in The New Yorker. "A new patron saint has been appointed! Henceforth St. Bernardino* of Siena will keep a special eye on advertisers, publicists and public relations experts . . . For anyone engaged in these professions, it's a perfect gift." Price...
...Must Die (Kassler) is one of the most powerful religious statements the screen has made in many a year. The fact has its ironic implications. The man who made the film, a 46-year-old New Yorker named Jules Dassin, was blacklisted in Hollywood after a witness told a congressional investigating committee that he was a Communist. When he worked in the U.S., Dassin was regarded as nothing more than a capable technician of suspense (Naked City, Brute Force). Rififi, a thriller he made in France after five years without work, revealed him as a superb one. He Who Must...