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...this kind offers a true medium between academic knowledge and the actual workings of government and business. When you are dealing with a subject or current discussion and strategy, the subject is most clearly understood by association with those personalities who are framing the situation and centre the real background, rather than a mere reference to a myriad of cut-and-dried facts...
...have too much historical background and too much knowledge of existing dictatorships to make me desire any form of dictatorship for a democracy like the United States...
...DARK COMMAND-W. R. Burnett -Knopf ($2.50). Lickity-split romance against a background of Kansas-Missouri border fighting; by the author of Little Caesar. A supplementary four-page leaflet explains who his Confederate villain was in real life, makes better reading than much of the novel...
...drama, Playwright Albright introduces a hobbling version of the modern-minded young medico balked by his old-fogy superior, lugs in the love of two staff doctors for the same nurse. These concessions to plot bore like termites through the sound timber of the play's background, leave it rather hollow...
...clashing over policy, Crawford and Strasberg withdrew from the Group, Clurman remained. Cheryl Crawford set up as her own producer, last week made her bow with All the Living. Strasberg became a free lance. Both Crawford and Strasberg represent the vanguard of the U. S. theatre; both have a background of foreign experimentalism. Strasberg, originally influenced by Actor-Director Constantine Stanislavsky of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, favors a naturalistic technique, insists that actors should "do all the small things, not worry about the big things...